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Eaton,  W.  H.  1841-1908. 
Historical  sketch  of  the 
Massachusetts  Baptist 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

OF 

THE    MASSACHUSETTS   BAPTIST 
MISSIONARY    SOCIETY 


Rev.  W.  H.  Eaton, 
Secretary,  1888 — 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH  of  the 
MASSACHUSETTS  BAPTIST 
MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  AND 
CONVENTION      ^      1802-1902 


With  an  Appendix  and  Other 
Related  Matters 


BY 

REV.    W.    H.    EATON 

Secretary,  1888- 


Published  by 

Massachusetts  Baptist  Convention 

Boston 


Copyright,  igoj 
By  Rev.  W.  H.  Eaton 


Colonial  iSrrsa 

Electrotyped  and  Printed  by  C.  H.  Simonds  &  Co. 

Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A, 


Foreword 

At  the    annual    meeting    of    the    Massachusetts 
Baptist  Convention  —  originally  known  as  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Baptist  Missionary  Society  —  held  in  Oc- 
tober,   1 90 1,   the    President,    Rev.    E.    P.   Farnham, 
suggested    the    propriety    of     commemorating,    by 
special    memorial    services,   the   one   hundredth   an- 
niversary,  and   that   some    person    be   appointed    to 
deliver    a   historical  address.     This   suggestion  was 
adopted,  and  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Eaton,  the  Secretary, 
was  subsequently  appointed  by  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee to  be  the  historian  for  the  occasion.     It  was 
deemed  best  to  hold  the  memorial  service  in  connec- 
tion  with  the   annual   meeting  rather   than   on  the 
precise  date   of  the  anniversary,  which  would  have 
been  May  26,    1902.     The  service  was  accordingly 
held  on  the  morning  of  October  29th,  with  the  First 
Baptist  Church,  in  Boston,  in  whose  meeting-house 
the   first    meeting  was    held.     The   attendance  was 
large,  and  the  impressive  exercises  were  given  addi- 
tional interest  by  the  presence  of  six  ministers  who 
were  in  attendance  upon  the  semi-centennial  at  Era- 


VI  FOREWORD 

mingham,  fifty  years  before.  After  listening  to  such 
a  portion  of  the  historical  address  as  the  limits  of  time 
permitted,  a  vote  was  passed  that  the  same  be  pub- 
lished in  full.  In  accordance  with  such  instructions, 
the  undersigned  committee,  specially  appointed  for 
the  purpose,  submit  in  the  following  pages  the  his- 
tory prepared,  accompanied  by  quite  a  large  number 
of  illustrations  which  they  anticipate  will  give  added 
interest  to  the  reader,  and  a  list  of  Massachusetts 
Baptist  pastors  for  a  century.  No  attempt  has  been 
made  to  broaden  the  scope  of  the  work  as  originally 
designed,  and  persons,  places,  and  contemporary 
events  have  only  been  given  such  notice  as  the 
presentation  of  facts  concerning  the  origin  and 
progress  of  the  Society  has  made  necessary. 

There  have  been  inserted  in  the  appendix  copies 
of  several  historical  papers,  the  signatures  in  fac- 
simile of  the  Baptist  ministers  in  Massachusetts  to 
a  notable  document  issued  in  1847,  and  other  related 
matter. 

The  index,  it  is  hoped,  will  be  found  valuable  by 
those  who  wish  to  refer  to  dates,  to  important  events, 
and  to  the  connection  of  individuals  with  the  work  of 
the  Society. 

Special  acknowledgment  is  made  of  the  valuable 
assistance  in  the  furnishing  of  statistical  data  afforded 
by  Mr.  Francis  E.  Blake  and  Rev.  N.  R.  Everts. 
Credit  should  also  be  given  to  the  histories  published 


FOREWORD  VU 

by  Isaac  Backus,  David  Benedict,  H.  S.  Burrage,  and 
A.  H.  Newman,  and  to  the  "  New  York  Century 
of  Missions ; "  also  to  the  "  History  of  the  First 
Baptist  Church,  Boston,"  by  Nathan  E.  Wood, 
D.  D. ;  to  the  Backus  Society  for  the  loan  of  original 
documents,  and  to  numerous  other  individuals  who 
through  correspondence  and  suggestion  have  aided 
in  furnishing  facts  of  value. 

The  Committee  submit  the  results  of  their  labors, 
with  the  hope  that  they  may  prove  stimulating  to 
future  noble  endeavor,  and  serve  to  perpetuate  the 
memory  of  an  important  period  in  our  denominational 
growth,  and  especially  the  development  along  lines  of 
missionary  activity. 

(Signed) 
William  H.  Eaton,        \ 
Franklin   Hutchinson,  V  Committee. 
Joseph  S.  Swaim,  J 


List   of  Illustrations 


Rev.  W.  H.  Eaton 

Samuel  Stillman,  D.  D 

Thomas  Baldwin,  D.  D 

Meeting- House,  WHERE  the  Massachusetts  Bap- 
tist Missionary  Society  (Convention)  Was 
Organized 

Rev.  Isaac  Backus,  A.  M 

Rev.  Joseph  Grafton 

Lucius  Bolles,  D.  D.  . 

Rev.  John  M.  Peck    . 

Francis  Wayland,  D.  D.,  LL.  D 

Rev.  James  M.  Winchell 

Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D.  . 

Rev.  Bela  Jacobs 

Rev.  Charles  Train  . 

Deacon  Asa  Wilbur  . 

Deacon  Levi  Farwell 

Howard  Malcolm,  D.  D.,  LL.  D 

Baron  Stow,  D.  D. 

William  D.  Ticknor  . 

William  Lamson,  D.  D. 

Samuel  B.  Swaim,  D.  D. 


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LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 


Hon.  Isaac  Davis 
Hon.  George  N.  Briggs     . 
Robert  Mills,  D.D.  . 
Hon.  J.  M.  S.  Williams     . 
George  Barton  Ide,  D.  D. 
William  H.  Shailer,  D.D. 
Daniel  C.  Eddy,  D.  D. 
Joseph  C.  Foster,  D.  D. 
George  W.  Bosworth,  D.  D. 
Joseph  Ricker,  D.  D.  . 
Deacon  George  W.  Chipman 
C.  M.  Bowers,  D.  D.   . 
Hon.  Chester  W.  Kingsley 
William  A.  Munroe,  Esq. 
Hon.  Joseph  H.  Walker    . 
Robert  G.  Seymour,  D.  D. 
Hon.  E.  S.  Wilkinson 
William  H.  Breed 
Hon.  E.  Nelson  Blake 
Stephen  Moore  . 
William  W.  Main 
Dwight  Chester 
Dudley  P.  Bailey,  Esq.     . 
J.  P.  Abbott,  D.  D.      . 
Rev.  Edwin  P.  Farnham    . 
George  C.  Whitney  . 


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Massachusetts   Baptist 
Missionary   Society 


CHAPTER  I. 

This  book  is  designed  to  record  the  history  of  the 
Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society.  The 
preparations  of  Providence,  the  existing  conditions, 
—  material,  social,  political,  —  the  personnel  of  the 
founders  and  of  the  early  missionaries,  can  receive 
but  little  attention.  A  few  backward  glancings 
must  suffice.  Time  would  fail  to  tell  of  Roger 
Williams,  Henry  Dunster,  Obadiah  Holmes ;  of 
persecutions  so  severe  and  long  continued  that  in 
1774  the  Philadelphia  Association  recommended  the 
churches  to  contribute  a  fund  for  brethren  under 
ecclesiastical  oppression  in  New  England ;  of  men  in 
labors  abundant,  like  Shubael  Stearns  of  Boston,  and 
Daniel  Marshall  of  Connecticut,  who  gave  up  homes 
and  property  to  go  forth  into  North  Carolina  and 
Virginia,  and   so  preach  that  in   seventeen  years   a 


2  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

church,  organized  with  sixteen  members,  had  in- 
creased to  142  churches,  one  of  them  —  the  church 
at  Sandy  Creek  —  numbering  above  six  hundred 
members ;  while  from  the  membership  of  these 
churches  125  rninisters  had  been  ordained.  Such 
were  the  ancestors  of  the  men  who  organized  this 
Missionary  Society. 

The  changes  wrought  by  a  century  make  it  well- 
nigh  impossible  to  fully  appreciate  the  conditions 
under  which  this  Society  was  formed.  Thomas 
Jefferson  had  recently  become  President,  and  the 
seat  of  government  removed  to  Washington,  Ad- 
justment to  the  existing  conditions  under  the  new 
form  of  government  was  as  yet  incomplete.  Politi- 
cally, strife  between  Federalists  and  Republicans  was 
very  acrimonious.  John  Adams,  a  Massachusetts 
man,  the  immediate  predecessor  of  Jefferson,  had 
failed  of  reelection,  and  in  this  Commonwealth  — 
where  the  people  have  always  been  outspoken  in  the 
expression  of  their  convictions  —  there  was  much 
dissatisfaction  and  unrest. 

Where  so  dense  a  population  is  now  found,  there 
were  at  the  beginning  of  the  century  no  cities,  and 
but  few  towns  with  a  population  above  one  thousand. 
Boston,  the  largest  town  in  the  State,  had  in  1800 
only  24,655  inhabitants.  In  the  State,  as  a  whole, 
there  was,  as  shown  by  the  same  census,  a  population 
of  423,845,   with,   in   round    numbers,   one   hundred 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  3 

Baptist  churches,  and  six  thousand  members.  Of 
these  churches  there  were  twelve  numbering  upwards 
of  150  members.  The  largest,  having  347  members, 
was  located  in  Dartmouth.  But  three  of  the  twelve 
churches  are  as  large  now  as  they  were  at  that  time, 
and  five  of  the  remainder  have  become  extinct. 

A  considerable  community  of  Baptists  resided 
south  of  Boston,  in  the  vicinity  of  Middleboro, 
reaching  across  to  Swansea  —  in  which  town  the 
first  Baptist  church  in  the  State  was  planted  in  1663. 
The  estabhshment  of  this  church  was  not  so  much  an 
organization  or  reorganization,  as  a  relocation.  It  was 
originally  organized  April  i,  1649,  as  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Illston,  Glamorganshire,  Wales,  by  Rev. 
John  Myles,  a  man  of  conspicuous  ability,  educated 
at  Oxford  University,  who  had  held  a  high  ecclesias- 
tical position  under  Cromwell.  Persecuted  under 
Charles  II.,  members  of  this  church  with  their  pas- 
tor left  their  native  land  in  1662,  soon  after  the 
passage  by  Parliament  of  what  was  known  as 
the  "  Act  of  Uniformity,"  the  effect  of  which  was 
to  drive  Myles  and  two  thousand  other  ministers  from 
the  pastorate,  or  into  exile.  He  and  his  flock  sought 
an  asylum  in  the  New  World.  Coming  to  what  was 
then  known  as  Rehoboth,  they  at  once  instituted 
Baptist  worship  and  renewed  their  covenant ;  but 
they  were  not  to  be  exempt  from  persecution  on 
this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  for  in   1667,  Pastor  Myles 


4  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

and  one  of  his  brethren  were  arraigned  for  a  breach 
of  order  in  setting  up  a  pubUc  meeting  "  without  the 
knowledge  and  approbation  of  the  court,  to  the  dis- 
turbance of  the  peace  of  the  place,"  and  fined  five 
pounds.  However,  they  were  not  driven  from  the 
colony  by  the  Pilgrim  government,  but  given  a  loca- 
tion by  themselves  with  a  generous  allotment  of  land. 
Being  allowed  to  choose  a  name,  they  called  the  place 
Swansea,  after  a  town  in  Wales. 

A  colony  from  this  church  removed  to  Western 
Massachusetts  about  1750,  and  located  in  Cheshire 
and  Adams,  and  in  that  section  of  the  State,  on 
either  side  of  the  spur  of  the  Green  Mountain  Range, 
known  as  the  Berkshire  Hills,  about  midway  between 
the  Connecticut  River  and  the  New  York  line,  they 
became  quite  numerous.  The  churches  in  Chester- 
field, Sandisfield,  and  Cheshire  were  for  a  time  the 
largest  in  the  State. 

When  one  thinks  of  the  sparse  population,  the 
streams  in  general  without  bridges  except  such  as 
were  made  by  the  ice  of  winter,  of  the  primitive 
methods  of  conveyance,  of  blazed  trees  and  bridle 
paths,  of  the  meeting-houses  unheated  in  winter,  the 
tallow  candle  with  its  dim  light,  the  open  fireplace, 
of  the  distaff  and  the  loom,  and  the  homespun  cloth- 
ing, he  seems  to  be  going  back  into  the  twilight  of 
distant  centuries. 

The  people,  impoverished  by  the  long  severe  strain 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  5 

of  the  war  through  which  their  independence  had 
been  achieved,  were  also  suffering  the  ills  of  a  depre- 
ciated currency,  with  the  public  credit  much  impaired. 
To  such  a  people,  inured  to  hardship,  in  the  clos- 
ing years  of  the  eighteenth  century  had  come  a 
revival  of  religion  with  its  mighty  uplift  of  spiritual 
power,  bringing  into  the  churches  so  large  a  number 
destined  to  become  devoted  servants  of  Christ,  that 
some  have  accounted  it  the  richest  harvest  of  souls 
ever  gathered  on  this  continent.  Under  the  impulse 
of  this  quickening,  when  kinsfolk  and  acquaintance 
had  been  won,  a  yearning  was  felt  for  the  perishing 
in  regions  remote.  At  Associations,  in  their  annual 
convocations,  the  pastors  and  representatives  of  the 
churches  discussed  the  question  of  how  this  spirit  of 
service,  and  the  power  of  individual  effort,  could  be 
so  conserved  as  to  realize  the  force  of  cooperation 
in  promoting  the  extension  of  the  empire  of  truth. 
At  the  first,  individuals — largely  pastors  obtaining 
leave  of  absence  from  their  churches  —  had  gone 
forth  a  few  weeks  to  the  frontier  and  into  the  wilder- 
ness, preaching  where  people  could  be  gathered,  but 
the  capacity  for  such  service  was  limited,  and  it  was  so 
manifestly  inadequate  as  to  almost  compel  the  in- 
quiry, "  How  can  the  need  be  more  adequately 
met.^"  When  the  relations  of  Baptists  and  Congre- 
gationalists  as  they  then  existed  are  taken  into  ac- 
count,  it  seems    a    wonder    that    local    unions  were 


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effected  among  them  to  send  into  destitute  com- 
munities a  Baptist  minister,  or  a  Congregationalist, 
as  the  case  might  be,  usually  one  from  their  own 
number,  to  labor  for  a  few  weeks  or  months.  So  far 
as  known,  Boston  furnished  the  first  instance  of  this 
kind  of  effort.  Rev.  David  Irish  being  sent  by  a 
union  Society  to  the  frontier  settlements  in  New 
York  in  1794. 

Another  manifestation  of  the  missionary  spirit, 
feeling  its  way  after  more  effective  methods,  was 
found  in  the  action  of  the  Philadelphia  and  Warren, 
and,  perhaps  most  notable  of  all,  of  the  famous  old 
Shaftesbury  Association  of  Western  Massachusetts, 
Eastern  New  York,  and  Vermont,  which  for  at  least 
eight  years  previous  to  the  organization  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Baptist  Missionary  Society  sent  forth  some 
of  its  ministers  every  year  into  New  York,  New 
Hampshire,  Vermont,  and  Canada  ;  money  for  their 
expenses  being  secured  by  a  collection  taken  at  the 
annual  meeting.  Think  for  a  moment  of  the  serious 
condition  of  spiritual  destitution  when  one  of  the 
missionaries  reported  travelling  through  New  York, 
Vermont,  and  northward  into  lower  Canada,  returning 
through  New  Hampshire  to  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts, 
making  a  preaching  tour  of  six  hundred  miles  without 
meeting  a  minister  of  the  gospel ! 


Samuel  Stillman,  D.  D. 


CHAPTER  II. 

The  burden  of  the  Great  Commission  and  the  con- 
straining love  of  Christ  seems  to  have  specially  moved 
the  hearts  of  the  Reverends  Samuel  Stillman,  Thomas 
Baldwin,  Thomas  Waterman,  Joseph  Grafton,  Elisha 
Williams,  Hezekiah  Smith,  and  their  compeers.  No 
pen  has  told  what  seasons  of  prayer  and  consultation 
were  held,  but  Rev.  Thomas  Waterman  made  record 
of  the  fact  that  on  the  twenty-sixth  day  of  May,  1 802, 
in  the  meeting-house  of  the  First  Baptist  Church  in 
Boston,  was  held  a  meeting  which  marked  the  en- 
trance by  our  denomination  in  this  country  upon  a 
missionary  career  which  has  doubtless  far  exceeded 
the  most  sanguine  anticipations  of  the  originators  of 
the  movement. 

The  site  of  the  first  meeting-house, — where  this 
Society  was  organized,  —  at  the  corner  of  Salem  and 
Stillman  Streets,  was  originally  occupied  on  the  15th 
of  February,  1679,  the  location  having  been  chosen 
so  near  the  water  for  convenience  for  baptismal  ser- 
vices. The  original  house  was  removed  to  South 
Boston  in  1771,  and  was  afterwards  occupied  by  the 
South  Baptist  Church. 

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8  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

The  old  first  building  of  this  church  was  the  one 
whose  doors  were  nailed  up  by  authority  of  the 
colonial  government,  and  in  the  strange  and  rapid 
mutations  of  public  sentiment,  into  this  same  house, 
in  1 71 8,  came  Reverends  Increase  Mather,  Cotton 
Mather,  and  James  Webb,  who  but  a  few  years  before 
had  used  their  influence  to  drive  the  Baptists  from 
the  colony,  to  participate  in  the  ordination  services 
of  Rev.  Elisha  Calendar,  as  pastor  of  the  church. 

The  original  missive,  under  whose  call  the  first 
meeting  was  held,  reads  as  follows : 

"  To  our  Christian  Brethren  united  with  us  in  the  Faith  and 
Order  of  the  Gospel,  we  send  greeting. 

"  Dearly  Beloved  :  —  Wishing  grace,  mercy,  and  peace 
to  abound  through  the  knowledge  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour, 
Jesus  Christ. 

"  Being  deeply  impressed  with  the  important  obligations  we 
are  under,  as  professing  Christians,  not  only  to  pray  for  the 
prosperity  of  Zion,  but  to  use  our  best  endeavors  to  promote, 
and  spread  far  and  wide  the  knowledge  of  our  divine 
Immanuel ;  and  reflecting  seriously  upon  the  affecting  situa- 
tion of  many  of  our  dear  fellow  men,  who,- from  local  and 
other  circumstances,  are  deprived  of  the  means  of  Christian 
knowledge  and  consolation,  which  we  enjoy  from  a  preached 
gospel,  we  feel  our  hearts  go  out  toward  them  in  ardent 
desires  for  their  salvation. 

"  Under  such  impressions,  and  dominated  by  the  laudable 
exertions  which  many  of  our  Christian  friends  of  different 
denominations  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic  are  making  to 
extend  the  empire  of  truth  and  promote  the  salvation  of  dying 
men,  we  propose  the  forming  of  a  Missionary  Society  for  the 
purpose   hereafter   mentioned.     And,    in   order  to  make  our 


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intention  more  explicit,  we  submit  to    your  consideration  the 
following." 

The  Constitution  thus  presented  for  consideration, 
which  was  subsequently  adopted,  reads  : 

"  Article  I.  This  Society  shall  be  distinguished  and  known 
by  the  name  of  the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary 
Society. 

"  Article  II.  This  Society  shall  be  composed  of  such 
members  only  as  shall  subscribe  and  pay  at  least  one  dollar 
annually  to  its  funds.' 

"  Article  III.  The  members,  at  their  first  meeting,  and  at 
their  annual  meeting  ever  after,  shall  by  ballot  appoint  Twelve 
Trustees,  eight  whereof  shall  be  ministers,  or  professing 
brethren  of  the  Baptist  denomination ;  the  other  four  may  be 
chosen  from  the  members  at  large;  who  shall  conduct  the 
business  of  the  Society  in  the  manner  hereafter  described. 

"  Article  IV.  The  object  of  this  Society  shall  be  to  furnish 
occasional  preaching,  and  to  promote  the  knowledge  of  evan- 
gehstic  truth  in  the  new  settlements  within  these  United 
States ;  or  further  if  circumstances  should  render  it  proper. 

'■'■Article  V.  The  Trustees  shall  have  power  to  apply  the 
funds  of  the  Society,  according  to  their  discretion,  in  all  cases 
in  which  they  shall  not  be  limited  by  special  direction  of  the 
Society. 

"  Article  VI.  They  shall  have  power  to  appoint  and  dis- 
miss missionaries,  to  pay  them,  and  generally  to  transact  all  the 
business  necessary  for  the  accomplishment  of  the  important 
object  of  the  Society. 

'  To  Article  II.  the  following  foot-note  was  appended  : 

"  This  small  sum,  which  by  this  article  is  made  necessary  in 

order  to  become  a  member,  is  not  designed  to  restrict  such  as  have 

it  in  their  power  to  subscribe  more  liberally." 


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"  Article  VII.  The  Trustees  shall  annually  appoint  a  Sec- 
retary, who  shall  keep  a  correct  and  fair  account  of  their  pro- 
ceedings, which  shall  be  read  to  the  Society  at  their  next 
succeeding  meeting.  They  shall  also  make  choice  of  one  of 
their  number  to  preside,  who,  with  four  other  Trustees,  shall 
be  a  quorum  to  do  business ;  or,  if  the  stated  Chairman  shall 
not  be  present,  any  five  of  the  Trustees  shall  be  a  quorum. 

"  Article  VIII.  The  Chairman  shall  have  power  to  call 
a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  at  his  discretion ;  and  it  shall  be 
his  duty  to  call  such  a  meeting  whenever  requested  by  three 
of  the  Trustees.  In  case  of  death  of  the  Chairman,  the 
Secretary,  when  applied  to  as  above,  shall  call  a  meeting  in 
order  to  appoint  another  Chairman,  or  transact  other  neces- 
sary business. 

'■'■Article  IX.  The  Society  shall  annually  appoint  a  Treas- 
urer, who  shall  exhibit  both  to  the  Society  and  to  the  Trustees 
the  state  of  the  treasury,  whenever  he  shall  be  called  on  for 
that  purpose. 

'■'■Article  X.  The  Trustees  shall  annually  exhibit  to  the 
Society  a  particular  account  of  the  missionaries  employed  by 
them;  the  place  to  which  they  are,  or  they  have  been  sent; 
the  state  of  the  funds ;  the  receipts  and  expenditures  ;  and 
whatever  else  relates  to  the  institution. 

'■'^  Article  XI.  The  Trustees,  and  all  other  officers  of  this 
Society,  shall  enter  upon  their  respective  offices  on  the  last 
Wednesday  of  May  annually,  and  shall  continue  in  office 
for  one  year. 

*■'  Article  XII.  The  Society  shall  hold  their  first  meeting 
for  the  choice  of  officers  at  the  First  Baptist  Meeting-house  in 
Boston  on  the  last  Wednesday  of  May  next,  at  nine  o'clock 
A.  M.,  and  in  every  year  thereafter  at  the  same  time  and  place, 
unless  otherwise  ordered  by  the  Society  or  Trustees. 

'■'Article  XIII.  In  order  more  effectually  to  aid  the  inten- 
tions of  the  Society,  it  is  proposed  to  have  a  sermon  delivered 
at  one  of  the  Baptist  meeting-houses  in  Boston  at  such  time 


Thomas  Baldwin,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  II 

as  the  Society  shall  determine ;  and  a  public  contribution  by 
the  people. 

'■'■Article  XIV.  It  shall  be  in  the  power  of  the  Society,  at 
their  annual  meeting,  from  time  to  time,  to  make  such  amend- 
ments and  alterations  as  experience  shall  dictate,  or  to  dissolve 
the  same  when  the  purposes  of  its  institutions  shall  render  its 
existence  no  longer  necessary." 

To  this  proposed  Constitution  was  appended  the 
following  address  : 

"  Dear  Sir  :  —  Not  doubting  of  your  concurrence  in  this 
good  work,  we  send  you  these  proposals ;  and  should  they 
meet  with  your  approbation,  we  request  you  to  use  your  influ- 
ence to  procure  subscribers  among  your  friends. 

"  We  request  you,  sir,  to  receive  the  subscriptions,  and 
return  this  paper,  together  with  the  money  you  may  collect,  to 
one  of  the  subscribers  in  Boston  on  or  before  the  last  Wednes- 
day in  May  next. 

"  We  subscribe  ourselves  : 
"  Yours,  dear  Sir,  in  the  Faith  of  the  Gospel, 
Samuel  Stillman,  ^ 
Thomas    Baldwin,       Committee  of 
Richard  Smith,  the  Baptist 

Daniel  Wild,  '      churches 


John  Wait, 
Thomas  Badger, 
"  April  2g,  1802.'" 


ill  Boston. 


In  response  to  this  call  a  meeting  was  held  in  the 
meeting-house  of  the  historic  First  Baptist  Church 
in  Boston. 

The  list  of  those  present  and  participating  in  the 
deliberations  and  actions  show  it  to  have  been  a  most 


12  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

notable  assembly,  in  every  respect  worthy  to  be 
called  representative  of  the  denomination.  First  on 
the  list  stands  the  name  of  Dr.  Samuel  Stillman,  the 
peerless  preacher  of  his  time  among  the  Baptists, 
and  by  common  consent  regarded  as  first  in  the  city. 
Rev.  Thomas  Baldwin  was  also  there,  with  Dr.  Stephen 
Gano,  Joseph  Grafton  of  Newton,  Dr.  Hezekiah 
Smith  of  Haverhill,  Rev.  Elisha  Williams  of  Beverly, 
Rev.  Thomas  Rand  of  West  Springfield,  Rev.  John 
Peak  of  Newburyport,  and  others.  The  list  of  lay- 
men present  was  scarcely  less  notable,  including  such 
names  as  Colonel  Dana  and  Capt.  Thomas  Badger. 

Dr.  Hezekiah  Smith  was  appointed  moderator,  and 
Rev.  Lucius  Bolles  of  Salem,  clerk  pro  tern. 

The  "  Throne  of  Grace "  was  addressed  by  the 
moderator,  after  which  it  was  voted  that  the  proposed 
Constitution,  which  had  been  submitted  with  the  call 
of  the  meeting,  be  accepted  as  it  stood. 

A  committee,  of  which  Doctor  Baldwin  was  chair- 
man, was  appointed  to  place  in  nomination  a  list  of 
twelve  persons  for  Trustees.  The  following  names 
of  persons  were  submitted,  who  were  afterward 
elected : 

Rev.  Samuel  Stillman  Rev.  Joel  Briggs 

"     Hezekiah  Smith  Rev.  Valentine  W.  Rathbun 

"     Thomas  Baldwin  Colonel  Dana 

"     Joseph  Grafton  Mr.  O.  Holden 

"     Stephen  Gano  Deacon  Richard  Smith 
"     Thomas  Waterman 


Meeting-house,    where   the    Massachusetts    Baptist 
Missionary  Society  (Convention)  was  organized. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  I  3 

Deacon  Daniel  Wild  was  elected  Treasurer,  and 
Rev.  Thomas  Waterman,  Secretary.  The  closing 
prayer  was  offered  by  Doctor  Stillman,  and  an 
adjournment  effected  to  the  meeting  of  the  Warren 
Association  at  Wrentham. 

At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Trustees,  held  on  the 
same  day  at  the  dwelling-house  of  Doctor  Baldwin, 
Reverends  John  Tripp  and  Isaac  Case  were  ap- 
pointed missionaries  for  the  British  Provinces,  and 
the  District  of  Maine.  Rev.  John  Leland  of  Che- 
shire was  appointed  to  the  Western  Mission.  Also, 
voted  that  each  missionary  be  allowed  his  travelling 
expenses  (he  finding  his  own  horse),  that  he  receive 
$5.00  a  week  as  a  compensation  for  his  labor,  but 
"that  all  the  money  each  missionary  may  receive  as 
presents  be  accounted  for  to  the  Trustees." 

Doctors  Stillman  and  Baldwin,  Reverends  Grafton 
and  Waterman,  with  Deacon  John  Wait,  were  ap- 
pointed a  standing  committee  for  the  year  to  manage 
the  concerns  of  the  Society. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  held  at  Wrentham, 
on  September  8th,  at  the  dwelling-house  of  Rev. 
William  Williams,  arrangements  were  made  to  have 
Doctor  Stillman  deliver  a  sermon  at  the  next  annual 
meeting,  to  be  followed  by  a  collection  for  the  bene- 
fit of  the  Society. 

On  the  1 5th  of  September,  at  a  meeting  held  with 
Doctor  Stillman,  Rev.  Joseph  Cornell  was  appointed 


14  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

to  the   Western   Mission  in   place  of  John  Leland 
declined. 

The  following  letter  was  addressed  to  the  mission- 
aries thus  sent  forth,  by  the  committee : 

"  Rev.  and  Dear  Brethren  :  —  The  Committee  of  the 
Trustees  of  the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society  feel 
unfeigned  satisfaction  in  regarding  you  as  some  of  the  instru- 
ments through  whose  exertions,  under  the  blessing  of  the  great 
Head  of  the  Church,  they  entertain  a  pleasing  hope  that  the 
important  aims  of  the  Society  will  in  some  degree  be  answered 
in  the  enlargement  of  the  Redeemer's  Kingdom,  and  the  exten- 
sion of  the  influence  of  vital  godliness.  They  are  persuaded 
that  your  zeal  for  the  divine  glory,  and  compassionate  affection 
for  the  souls  of  men,  will  stimulate  you  to  every  effort  which 
human  agency  can  effect,  to  promote  the  glorious  cause  in 
which  you  have  embarked.  And  your  past  experience  in  the 
gospel  ministry  in  general,  and  in  the  missionary  engagements 
in  particular,  will  preclude  the  necessity  of  minute  instructions 
on  this  subject.  There  are,  however,  a  few  observations  to 
which  the  Committee  feel  it  incumbent  on  them  to  request  your 
attention  as  being  adapted  in  their  view  to  subserve  the  design 
which  the  members  of  the  Society  have  associated  to  promote. 

"  I .  We  wish  you  to  bear  in  remembrance  that  it  is  a  primary 
object  of  this  institution  to  send  the  proclamation  of  the  grace 
of  the  gospel  to  those,  who  from  local  situations  are  deprived 
of  the  benefits  of  a  stated  exercise  of  the  Christian  ministry. 
You  will,  therefore,  endeavor,  as  discretion  shall  dictate  and 
circumstances  render  practicable,  to  direct  your  labors  in  a 
particular  manner  to  persons  thus  situated,  by  which  means 
the  light  of  divine  truth  will  be  diffused  through  a  circle  as 
extensive  as  the  limitations  of  time  will  allow. 

"  2.  The  Committee  most  strenuously  recommend  that  you 
solicitously  avoid  all  interference  and  allusions  to  those  polit- 
ical topics  which  divide  the  opinions  and  too  much  irritate  the 


Rev.  Isaac  Backus,  A.  M. 


>  HISTORICAL   SKETCH  15 

passions  of  our  fellow  citizens.  Subjects  of  this  description 
are  not  merely  irrelevant  to  the  spiritual  purposes  of  mission- 
ary exertion,  but  manifestly  subversive  to  all  reasonable  pros- 
pect of  success,  since  their  inevitable  tendency  is  to  excite 
disunion,  division,  and  that  asperity  of  feelings  which  stands 
directly  opposed  to  the  meekness  and  gentleness  of  the  Chris- 
tian temper.  We  are  persuaded  that  you  feel  the  propriety  of 
this  suggestion,  and  that  you  are  convinced  that  '  the  wrath 
of  man  worketh  not  the  righteousness  of  God.' 

"  The  Committee  have  only  to  add  their  request  that  you  keep 
an  exact  journal  of  the  most  remarkable  occurrences  which  take 
place,  such  as  your  reception  in  the  places  where  your  labors 
may  be  employed,  the  encouragements  or  difficulties  you  may 
meet  with,  and  the  appearances  of  success  with  which  your 
endeavors  may  be  crowned.  In  addition  to  this  regular  jour- 
nal of  your  transactions,  it  is  the  desire  of  the  Committee  that 
our  brethren  will  occasionally  transmit  such  information  of  the 
progress  of  the  mission  as  you  may  judge  useful  and  inter- 
esting. 

"  And  now,  dear  brethren,  we  affectionately  commend  you 
to  the  protecting  care  of  our  adorable  Master,  who  has  encour- 
aged His  faithful  servants  by  the  assurances  of  His  constant 
presence  with  them.  We  cordially  unite  in  fervent  supplica- 
tions for  your  success,  and  pray  that  you  may  be  eminently 
blessed  in  all  the  branches  of  the  gospel  ministry,  in  the  awak- 
ening of  sinners,  and  in  confirming  and  edifying  those  who  have 
believed  through  grace. 

»'  Signed  by  order  of  the  Committee, 

"  Samuel  Stillman,  Chairman. 
"  Thomas  Waterman,  Secretary:" 

Thoughtful  provision  for  the  missionaries'  intro- 
duction to  the  people  on  the  fields  they  were  to  visit 
was  made  through  the  following  letter  : 


1 6  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

"  To  our  Christian  Brethren  and  Friends  whose  lot  is  cast  in 
the  wilderness,  remote  from  the  stated  ministry  of  the  Word 
and  ordinances,  the  Committee  of  the  Massachusetts  Bap- 
tist Missionary  Society  sendeth  greeting  : 
"  Dearly  Beloved  and   Longed    For  :  —  God  having 
put  it  into  the  heart  of  a  number  of  your  friends  in  this  part  of 
the  land  to  unite  for  the  purpose  of  sending  the  gospel  into  the 
new  Settlements,  and  further  in  His  providence  should  open 
the  door.    In  compliance  with  their  wishes,  we  have  appointed 
our  beloved  brethren,  the  Rev.  Missionaries  Cornell,  Tripp,  and 
Case,  to  visit  and  preach  with  you  as  opportunities  may  pre- 
sent themselves.     We,  therefore,  affectionately  commend  them 
to  you  as  those  whom  we  judge  faithful,  and  whom  we  hope 
God  will  own  and  bless  among  you.     Receive  them,  therefore, 
in  the  Lord,  and  like  the  noble  Bereans  search  the  Scriptures 
prayerfully,  and  see  whether  the  things  that  they  shall  preach 
to  you  from  time  to  time  be  not  according  to  the  oracles  of 
truth. 

"  Our  fervent  prayers  accompany  them  in  their  journeyings 
among  you,  and  we  earnestly  hope  in  due  time  to  hear  of  their 
prosperity  and  success.  We  commend  them  and  you  to  God, 
and  to  the  Word  of  His  grace,  which  is  able  to  build  you 
up,  and  to  give  you  an  inheritance  among  all  them  who  are 
sanctified. 

M  Signed  by  the  Committee." 


CHAPTER  III. 

In  the  records  of  the  second  annual  meeting,  held 
with  the  First  Church,  Boston,  May  25,  1803,  is 
found  the  first  mention  of  an  effort  to  secure  the 
publication  of  a  missionary  magazine,  the  following 
action  being  taken : 

"  Voted:  That  it  is  the  wish  of  the  Society  that  a  practical 
work  be  published,  containing  such  information  as  may  be 
considered  interesting  to  the  Society." 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  subsequently  held, 
Dr.  Thomas  Baldwin  was  appointed  "  Conductor  "  of 
the  proposed  magazine,  with  Dr.  Samuel  Stillman, 
Rev.  Joseph  Grafton,  and  Mr.  James  Loring,  as 
assistants. 

The  manuscript  copy  of  Rev.  Isaac  Backus's 
"Abridged  History  of  New  England  Baptists  "  was 
also  referred  to  this  committee  for  examination. 

The  annual  meeting  for  the  year  1804  was  held 
with  the  Second  Baptist  Church,  Boston,  and  hon- 
ored with  the  presence  of  Rev.  Isaac  Backus,  who 
offered  the  opening  prayer.  Considerable  time  at 
this  meeting  was  spent  in  listening  to  the  letters 
from    missionaries,   and    tender   mention   was    made 

17 


1 8  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

of  the  absence  of  Rev.  Joseph  Grafton  on  account  of 
sickness  in  his  family. 

The  thanks  of  the  Society  were  tendered  to  female 
friends  of  Medfield  and  Dover,  and  to  the  female 
society  in  Boston  for  a  contribution  of  ;^  132.84. 
Acknowledgment  was  also  made  of  a  large  gift  by 
the  hand  of  Doctor  Stillman  from  some  gentleman 
whose  name  was  withheld,  and  of  other  generous 
contributions. 

At  this  meeting  a  letter  of  fraternal  greeting  from 
the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterians,  which 
had  held  a  recent  session  in  Philadelphia,  was  read, 
in  which,  with  felicitous  expressions  of  Christian 
courtesy,  they  proceeded  to  give  an  historical  sketch 
of  the  missionary  work  of  that  denomination,  alluding 
by  name  to  Rev.  David  Brainard  and  others,  mention- 
ing in  particular  "  four  descriptions  of  people "  to 
whom  the  Assembly  were  then  endeavoring  to  send 
missions  : 

1.  To  those  who  are  settled  on  our  frontier. 

2.  To  certain  places  in  some  settled  parts  where  the  gospel 
has  not  been  regularly  established. 

3.  To  the  black  people  of  the  United  States. 

4.  To  the  Indians. 

They  submitted  also  the  following  queries: 

How  long  has  your  Society  existed  ? 

What  were  the  circumstances  and  motives  that  led  to  its 
institution  ? 


Rev.  Joseph  Grafton. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  1 9 

What  obstacles  or  difficulties  have  you  had  to  surmount? 
What  are  your  funds  ? 
What  is  the  number  of  your  missionaries  ? 
Are  they  all  men  of  education  ? 
What  instructions  do  you  give  your  missionaries? 
What   are    the   places   to   which   you    have    already   sent 
missions  ? 

To  what  other  places  do  you  contemplate  sending  them  ? 
What  has  been  your  success  hitherto  ? 
What  are  your  prospects  for  the  future  ? 
What  advice  can  you  give  to  us  ? 

The  missive  concludes  as  follows : 

"  We  have  nothing  further  to  add  but  our  entreaties  and 
our  hopes  that  your  prayers  may  be  united  with  ours  and  most 
fervently  offered  at  the  Throne  of  Grace  that  God  may  give 
the  heathen  to  His  Son  for  an  inheritance,  and  the  uttermost 
parts  of  the  earth  for  His  possession,  and  that  He  may  speed- 
ily become  King  of  Nations  as  He  is  King  of  saints." 

The  annual  meeting  of  1804  was  adjourned  to 
May  30th,  when  the  propriety  of  forming  a  perma- 
nent fund  for  the  Society  was  considered  and  referred 
to  a  committee,  with  Doctor  Baldwin  as  chairman. 
The  same  committee,  somewhat  enlarged,  was  also 
authorized  to  petition  the  Legislature  for  an  act 
of  incorporation. 

Naturally  enough,  with  high  rates  of  postage  and 
the  scarcity  of  money,  it  was  found  difficult  to  make 
the  magazine  a  direct  source  of  profit  to  the  Society, 
and  an  arrangement  was  made  with  Doctor  Baldwin, 
giving  him  sole  charge,  he  to  profit  by  it  as  he  might, 


20  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

on  condition  that  he  pay  into  the  treasury  of  the 
Society  $25  for  each  number  issued,  this  vote 
being  made  retroactive  so  as  to  include  all  former 
numbers. 

The  records  for  the  next  two  years  make  inci- 
dental mention  in  1805  of  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees 
of  the  Baptist  Education  Society,  of  increased  atten- 
tion being  given  to  the  work  in  New  Brunswick,  and 
of  the  multiplication  of  contributing  ladies'  societies, 
especial  mention  being  made  of  the  liberality  of  the 
societies  in  Medfield  and  Boston. 

In  1806  the  Society  made  its  first  appropriation 
to  aid  in  sustaining  stated  preaching  in  a  town.  The 
place  was  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.  This  grant  was 
made  on  condition  that  the  church  also  contribute 
a  specific  sum,  to  be  applied  for  the  support  of  a 
student  from  Brown  University. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  1807,  the  Treasurer 
reported  a  balance  in  the  treasury  of  nearly  $2,000. 

The  churches  were  fast  becoming  imbued  with  the 
missionary  spirit,  and  the  work  in  various  directions 
was  pushed  forward  with  no  little  enthusiasm, 

A  missionary  society  having  been  organized  in 
New  York,  correspondence  was  opened  with  it, 
which  resulted  in  a  union  of  effort  in  the  support 
of  a  mission  to  the  Tuscarora  Indians.  This  union 
became  in  subsequent  years  a  source  of  no  little 
embarrassment,  and  was  finally  dissolved  by  mutual 


Lucius  Bolles,  D  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  21 

consent,  the  Massachusetts  Society  paying  above 
1^530  to  make  final  settlement  of  some  disputed 
claims. 

In  1808  a  committee  was  appointed  to  petition  the 
Legislature  for  an  act  of  incorporation,  and,  what 
is  remarkable  and  exceptional  in  Baptist  history, 
it  is  a  matter  of  record  that  they  were  instructed 
also  to  petition  for  pecuniary  assistance  from  the 
State  in  propagating  the  gospel  in  the  Province  of 
Maine.  Happily,  this  request  was  not  granted,  but 
an  act  of  incorporation  was  passed  by  the  Legislature 
on  February  28,  1808.  The  incorporators  named 
were  Thomas  Baldwin,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Joseph  Clay, 
Deacon  John  Wait,  of  Boston ;  Rev.  William  Collier, 
Deacon  David  Goodwin,  Deacon  John  Carter,  of 
Charlestown  ;  Rev.  Joseph  Grafton,  and  John  Kend- 
rick,  Esq.,  of  Newton  ;  Rev.  Lucius  Bolles  of  Salem  ; 
Rev.  William  Williams  of  Wrentham  ;  Rev.  Ehsha 
Williams  of  Beverly ;  Rev.  William  Batchelder  of 
Haverhill ;  Rev.  Valentine  W.  Rath  bun  of  Bridge- 
water ;  and  Rev.  John  Peak  of  Newburyport. 

The  name  under  which  the  corporation  was  formed 
was  "The  Baptist  Missionary  Society  in  Massachu- 
setts." By  the  original  charter  the  corporation  was 
"allowed  to  receive  and  hold  real  estate  of  any  kind 
in  fee  simple,  or  other  estate,  not  exceeding  $15,000, 
and  receive  real  and  personal  estate  by  donation, 
bequest,  legacy,  or  otherwise,  not  exceeding  ;^  10,000, 


22  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

the  annual  income  of  all  which  real  and  personal 
estate  shall  be  held  to  the  sole  use  and  purposes  of 
diffusing  Christian  knowledge  in  such  manner  as  the 
said  corporation  shall  judge  will  best  promote  and 
answer  the  designs  of  their  incorporation,  provided, 
however,  that  each  and  every  one  of  the  missionaries, 
or  other  instructors  or  teachers  employed  by  the 
said  corporation,  shall  be  of  the  Protestant  religion, 
of  competent  learning,  of  reputed  piety  and  prudence, 
and  of  exemplary  morals,"  the  duration  of  the  charter 
to  extend  for  fifteen  years  from  the  passage  of  the 
act.     (See  Appendix  A.) 

The  annual  meeting  in  May,  1808,  accepted  the 
charter,  and  the  Society  became  duly  incorporated. 
In  order  to  meet  legal  requirements  properly,  the 
following  vote  was  passed,  which,  in  the  light  of 
the  present,  suggests  the  progress  that  has  been 
made  since  the  days  when  the  mails  were  too  expen- 
sive to  be  used  except  in  cases  of  absolute  necessity : 

"  Voiedy  That  the  Secretary  be  directed  to  notify  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  meetings  of  this  Board  through  the  medium  of'  the 
post-office,  if  no  other  mode  of  conveyance  offers." 

Two  other  acts  of  the  annual  meeting  of  this 
memorable  year  (1808)  are  found,  one  in  an  appro- 
priation to  that  pioneer  colored  preacher,  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Paul,  who  labored  with  what  was  then  known 
as  the  "African  Church,"  now  St.  Paul's,  Boston,  and 


Rev.  John  AI.  Peck. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  23 

extended  his  missionary  activity  to  various  towns  in 
the  vicinity,  for  sending  him  on  a  mission  to  Hayti ; 
and  the  other,  in  a  communication  addressed  to  the 
Warren  Association,  asking  it  to  recommend  to  all 
the  churches  belonging  to  the  Association  the  adop- 
tion of  some  measure  to  "establish  a  permanent 
income  to  the  Missionary  Society,  either  by  subscrip- 
tion or  annual  contributions,  as  may  suit  the  conven- 
ience of  the  churches." 

The  report  of  the  Board,  signed  by  William  Collier, 
the  Secretary,  as  published  in  the  Missionary  Maga- 
zine, records  the  employment  of  thirteen  missionaries 
in  Vermont,  New  York,  New  Hampshire,  Lower 
Canada,  the  District  of  Maine ;  also  of  work  in  New 
Brunswick,  and  among  the  Tuscarora  Indians,  and 
concludes  with  these  words : 

"  The  people  in  the  new  settlements  who  solicit  our  assist- 
ance, the  aged,  middle-aged,  and  even  the  children  and  youth, 
feelingly  press  the  missionaries  to  come  again,  to  come  and 
live  among  them  and  speak  to  them  of  the  words  of  this  life. 
In  a  word,  we  have  everything  to  stimulate  to  unremittent 
exertions  —  the  promises  of  God,  the  command  of  Christ,  the 
glory  of  God,  and  the  honor  of  being  workers  together  with 
Him  in  the  establishment  and  extension  of  that  Kingdom 
which  is  not  of  this  world,  but  which,  one  day,  will  cover  the 
earth  as  the  waters  cover  the  sea,  and  finally  of  beholding 
millions  of  the  so-called  risen  in  glory  the  fruits  of  a  precious 
Saviour's  death,  and  the  price  of  the  riches  of  sovereign  grace." 

The  special  interest  manifested  in  the  condition  of 
Central  New  York  finds  explanation  in  the  fact  that 


24  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

in  the  grant  of  land  the  original  Charter  gave  to  the 
Massachusetts  Colony,  was  embraced  a  strip  of  ter- 
ritory of  the  present  width  of  the  State,  extending 
from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific  Ocean.  This  bisect- 
ing of  the  State  of  New  York,  caused  much  contro- 
versy. The  matter  under  dispute  was  adjusted  finally 
by  a  conference  of  representatives  of  the  two  States 
held  in  Hartford  in  1786,  when  it  was  agreed  that 
the  sovereignty  should  remain  vested  in  New  York, 
but  that  Massachusetts  should  have  preemption  rights 
in  all  territory  east  of  a  certain  meridian  line.  For 
this  reason  the  country  was  settled  largely  by  Massa- 
chusetts people,  in  whose  welfare  their  kinsmen  natu- 
rally felt  a  special  interest. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

In  i8io  a  new  departure  was  taken  by  the  Society 
in  setting  apart  a  portion  of  its  funds  to  be  disbursed 
under  a  special  committee  for  domestic  missions, 
having  special  reference  to  the  aid  of  churches  in 
the  support  of  pastors. 

The  records  of  1810  also  make  mention  of  a 
society  of  young  men  in  Boston  offering  to  assume 
the  entire  support  of  a  missionary  appointed  to  labor 
under  the  direction  of  the  Board. 

In  181 3  Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D.,  became  Secretary. 

The  financial  condition  of  the  Society  would  seem 
at  this  time  to  have  been  quite  good,  a  vote  being 
passed  at  the  annual  meeting,  to  authorize  the  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer  to  see  that  the  surplus  of  the 
money  belonging  to  the  Society  then  on  hand  be 
properly  invested,  and  also  that  the  Treasurer  be 
asked  to  furnish  bondsmen. 

The  scrutiny  of  the  Treasurer's  accounts  during 
these  years  was  apparently  very  critical,  mention 
being  made  of  the  appointment  of  a  special  com- 
mittee to  examine  into  the  securities  of  notes  in  the 

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26  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

hands  of  the  Treasurer,  and  ascertain  if  they  were 
satisfactory,  and  in  another  instance  we  find  the 
President  requested  to  "  receive  security  of  the 
Treasurer  this  present   week." 

In  1 813  a  committee  was  appointed  to  confer  with 
Elder  Joseph  Bradley  in  connection  with  a  local  mis- 
sion in  New  Hampshire,  and  the  same  year  a  record 
is  had  of  the  holding  of  a  special  meeting  of  the 
Convention  Board  at  Weare,  N.  H,  The  explana- 
tion of  holding  a  meeting  at  a  point  so  remote 
is  probably  found  in  the  fact  that  it  was  held  in 
connection  with  a  meeting  of  the  Warren  Associa- 
tion. 

Mention  was  made  in  the  records  of  this  year  of 
the  organization  of  an  auxiliary  society  in  Maine,  and 
an  exchange  of  fraternal  greetings  follows. 

In  18 14  a  committee  was  appointed  to  provide 
supplies  for  destitute  places,  to  which  it  was  found 
inexpedient  to  send  missionaries.  This  committee 
was  continued  in  subsequent  years  to  meet  the 
increasing  demands  of  settled  communities  for  the 
stated  preaching  of  the  Word. 

The  term  "home  mission"  first  occurs  on  the 
records  of  that  year.  There  was  then  a  marked 
scarcity  of  available  men  for  missionary  service,  and 
letters  of  inquiry  were  addressed  to  the  prominent 
ministers  in  several  States  to  learn  if  there  were 
any  ministers  in  their  neighborhood  "qualified  and 


Francis  Wayland,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  2/ 

disposed  to  engage  in  the  services  of  our  home 
mission  ? ' ' 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  year  1816,  an  inno- 
vation upon  the  order  of  exercises  which  had  pre- 
vailed from  the  beginning  was  introduced,  the  report 
of  the  Board  being  followed  upon  motion  of  its 
adoption  by  an  address  by  Jeremiah  Chaplin,  D.  D., 
upon  "  The  Importance  of  Christians  being  more 
actively  engaged  in  the  Cause  of  Missions,"  and  in 
like  manner  the  Treasurer's  report  was  followed  by 
Rev.  Lucius  Bolles  in  an  address  by  which  he 
brought  into  view  "  the  very  limited  means  of  the 
Society  when  first  founded,  and  our  present  ample 
resources." 

There  are  other  indications  that  the  financial  situ- 
ation of  the  Society  at  this  time  was  quite  easy,  and 
so  continued  up  to  the  time  when  the  attention  of 
the  churches  was  in  measure  diverted  from  the 
home  to  the  foreign  field.  Under  such  conditions 
the  compensation  of  the  missionaries  was  increased 
by  one  dollar  per  week. 

At  a  Board  meeting  this  year,  steps  were  taken,  by 
the  appointment  of  a  committee,  to  assist  churches  in 
procuring  stated  supplies  and  pastors.  This  action 
formed  a  natural  supplement  to  the  itinerant  mis- 
sionary service  through  which  churches  were  being 
gathered  in  various  localities,  and  appears  to  have 
been  the  initial  movement  which  led,  subsequently. 


28  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

to  the  organization  of  the  Convention,  which  existed 
from  1823  to  1835,  contemporaneous  with  the  old 
Society. 

During  the  years  from  18 12  to  1820  considerable 
sums  were  received  from  missionary  societies  known 
as  "female  societies,"  "mite  societies,"  "young  men's 
societies,"  etc.,  from  localities  outside  Massachusetts 
—  from  Rhode  Island  in  particular. 

In  the  records  of  this  year  an  allusion  is  found  to 
Sunday  schools,  occurring  in  the  form  of  a  recommen- 
dation that  "  the  money  contributed  by  children's  mite 
societies  be  devoted  to  the  support  of  Sunday  schools 
in  destitute  parts." 

During  18 16  a  new  series  of  the  Magazine  was 
begun,  and  the  name  changed  from  TJie  Massachu- 
setts Baptist  Missionary  Magazine  to  The  American 
Baptist  Missionary  Magazine  and  Missionary  Intelli- 
gencer. It  was  also  made  a  bi-monthly  instead  of 
a  quarterly,  as  in  the  years  immediately  preceding. 

At  a  Board  meeting  held  in  December,  18 17, 
mention  was  made  of  a  communication  from  Mr. 
Rice  to  Doctor  Baldwin,  and  also  of  one  from  the 
Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions.  From  the  recorded  action  of  the  meeting, 
it  appears  that  two  of  the  editors  of  the  Magazine 
had  made  a  contract  to  allow  the  use  of  its  columns 
in  the  interest  of  foreign  missions,  and  that  the 
Board  for  Foreign  Missions  had  agreed  to  distribute 


Rev.  James  M.  Winchell. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  29 

a  certain  number  of  copies  of  the  Magazine,  which 
were  to  be  delivered  them  in  Philadelphia.  Either 
these  had  not  been  called  for  as  expected,  or  the 
sum  agreed  for  payment  had  not  been  received. 
Some  one  considering  himself  properly  authorized  had 
contracted  certain  debts  for  the  outfits  of  missiona- 
ries of  the  Foreign  Board,  and  failing  to  receive  the 
financial  support  expected,  he  applied  to  the  Trustees 
of  the  Missionary  Society  for  relief,  which  was 
granted  by  the  Society  authorizing  the  Treasurer  to 
pay  this  debt. 

Under  the  same  date  mention  was  made  of  the 
sale  of  a  piece  of  real  estate,  given  in  trust  for  the 
benefit  of  a  domestic  or  home  mission  in  America 
for  a  term  of  twenty  years  succeeding  the  decease 
of  the  widow  of  the  testator,  afterward  to  be  trans- 
ferred to  the  Baptist  Education  Fund  for  the  pur- 
pose of  "  educating  pious  young  men  of  indigent 
circumstances  in  literary  and  theological  knowledge 
for  the  ministry."  This  gift  amounted  to  ^3,600  — 
a  very  considerable  sum  for  the  times.  Instead  of 
being  divided  between  the  different  objects  to  which 
assistance  was  proposed,  the  income  was  given  for 
a  term  of  years  to  one  cause,  and  then  in  perpetuity 
to  another. 

In  18 18  it  was  voted  that  the  report  of  the  Trus- 
tees be  not  only  printed  in  the  Magazine  as  hitherto, 
but  published  in  separate  form.     Missionaries  were 


30  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

instructed  to  form  societies  auxiliary  wherever  it  was 
practicable,  and  also  to  use  their  influence  to  extend 
the  circulation  of  the  Magazine. 

The  condition  of  the  funds  appears  to  have  been 
much  less  favorable  in  i8 18-19. 

Up  to  the  year  18 19,  the  records  are  singularly 
silent  concerning  the  death  of  those  prominently 
identified  with  the  work  of  the  Society ;  even  in  the 
case  of  Dr.  Samuel  Stillman  and  Isaac  Backus  no 
mention  is  made.  But  this  year  we  find  allusion  to 
the  death  of  Rev.  James  M.  Winchell,  with  instruc- 
tion that  the  committee  procure  a  likeness  of  him 
for  use  in  the  Magazine. 

As  a  happy  illustration  of  the  tact  with  which  the 
fathers  dealt  with  questions  not  unlike  some  which 
arise  at  the  present  time,  observe  the  following 
record  : 

"  As  our  brethren  of  the  New  Hampshire  Society  appear  to 
contemplate  supplies  to  several  churches  rather  than  the  ap- 
pointment of  a  missionary  for  three  or  six  months,  as  proposed 
in  our  communication  to  them,  and  as  we  learn  from  their 
agent  that  some  of  the  persons  named  have  commenced  their 
labors  without  receiving  appointment,  which  is  not  in  conform- 
ity with  our  regulations, 

"  Voted.,  That  the  Secretary  be  requested,  affectionately,  to 
state  to  our  brethren  that  our  views  were  probably  misappre- 
hended by  them,  but  that  we  will  cheerfully  give  the  appoint- 
ment, if  proposed  for  a  mission,  for  three  months  to  such 
persons  as  they  shall  recommend  for  New  Hampshire." 


Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D. 


CHAPTER  V. 

In  the  year  1822  a  committee  consisting  of  Doc- 
tors Thomas  Baldwin  and  Daniel  Sharp  were  ap- 
pointed to  petition  the  Legislature  to  extend  the  time 
of  the  act  of  incorporation,  and  also  to  enlarge  the 
powers  of  the  Society,  so  that  "  it  may  be  allowed  to 
hold  personal  and  real  estate  to  the  amount  of 
$50,000."  It  was  also  voted  to  obtain  a  seal  for  the 
Society,  and  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  held  in 
1822,  it  was  reported  that  a  seal  had  been  procured, 
and  that  the  committee  appointed  to  secure  the 
renewal  of  the  corporation  had  been  successful. 

The  report  of  the  Board  for  this  year,  from  the 
pen  of  Doctor  Sharp,  makes  the  following  allusion 
to  its  being  the  twentieth  anniversary  of  the  Society  : 

"  It  is  now  twenty  years  since  this  Society  held  its  first 
meeting  for  the  choice  of  officers,  and  the  transaction  of  other 
business  connected  with  the  objects  for  which  it  was  estab- 
hshed.  And  although  several  highly  respected  ministers  of 
Christ,  who  took  an  active  part  on  that  occasion  long  ago, 
have  entered  into  rest,  yet  there  are  a  few  spared  who  remem- 
ber with   feelings  of  lively  interest  the  circumstances  which 

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32  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

attended  its  organization.  They  were  permitted  the  honor  of 
bestowing  on  this  institution  in  its  infancy  their  fostering  care ; 
and  have  observed  its  growth  from  year  to  year  until  it  has 
arrived  at  a  state  of  maturity  which  gives  them  peculiar  pleas- 
ure. Indeed,  none  of  us  can  have  a  correct  knowledge  of  the 
rise  and  progress  of  this  Society  without  feelings  of  gratitude 
for  its  past  success,  and  confident  expectation  of  its  future 
prosperity.  We  have  abundant  reason  to  thank  God  and 
take  courage ;  and  to  continue  the  work  which  our  venerable 
predecessors  commenced ;  and  to  persevere  in  well  doing,  see- 
ing that  in  due  time  we  shall  reap  if  we  faint  not." 


The  reports  of  missionary  work  published  in  the 
Magazine  show  that  this  was  a  period  of  great  activity 
in  the  formation  of  churches.  Special  mention  was 
made  of  the  organization  of  the  Claremont  and  First 
Concord,  N.  H,,  churches,  which  have  since  had 
eventful  histories. 

At  the  Board  meeting  held  in  1822,  an  appropria- 
tion of  ;^  1,000  from  the  legacy  of  a  Mrs.  Bull  was 
made  to  the  brethren  in  Calcutta,  subject  to  the 
order  of  Rev.  Adoniram  Judson,  Jr.,  to  be  expended 
in  the  translation  of  the  Scriptures. 

Perhaps  with  the  thought  that  the  best  gifts  ought 
to  be  more  widely  distributed,  on  the  suggestion  of 
a  Mr.  Moriarty,  it  was  voted  in  1822  that  the  follow- 
ing named  ministers  engage  in  temporal  itinerant 
labors,  to  receive  ^30  each  per  annum  for  their 
travelling  expenses.  The  men  thus  designated  were 
as  follows : 


Rev.    Bel  a  Jacobs. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

Thomas  Baldwin,  D.  D.  Rev.  Joseph  Grafton 

Luaus  Belles,  D.D.  .    Elisha  Williams 

Rev.  Ebenezer  Nelson  <i     r-        • 

"    Bela  Jacobs  N^'T^f '""' ^^■ 

"    Beniamln  c  r    ,.  Nathaniel  W.  Williams 

Benjamin  C.  Grafton  Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D. 

In  .819,  Rev.  John  Keeley  ("Father  Keeley") 
dehvered  an  introductory  discourse  at  the  opelg 
of  the  annual  meeting,  a  custom  which,  in  the 
modtfied  form  of  an  annual  sermon,  has  been  fol- 
lowed    w,th    but   few   interruptions   to   the  present 

In  September  of  this  year,  the  Trustees  appointed 
a  commrttee  to  obtain  a  preacher  for  Portsmouth,  N 
H.,  and  were  "empowered   to  give  such  remuner-' 
ation  as  m  their  judgment  the  facts  of  the  case  may 

require.  ^ 

At  the  same  meeting  an  appropriation  of  $200  was 
made  to  the  Hamilton  Missionary  Baptist  Society  tor 
the  benefit  of  the  Oneida  Indians.  Another  item 
appears  authorizing  the  appropriation  of  a  sum  not 
exceeding  ^50  to  the  editors  of  the  Magazine  to 
bemused  m  obtaining  -the  earliest  intelligence  from 

The  next  year  we  find  Rev.  Thomas  Paul,  then 
pastor  of  the  First  African  Church  in  Boston,  again 
appomted  to  go  on  a  six  months'  mission  to  Hayti 
w.th  an  appropriation   of   $2^,  and    his   pulpit   to' 
be  supplied  meanwhile. 


34  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

In  1823,  an  appropriation  of  ^1,161  was  made 
for  the  translation  of  the  Scriptures  into  the  Burmese 
language. 

At  a  Board  meeting  held  in  1824,  at  the  house  of 
Rev.  Nathaniel  W.  Williams,  of  Beverly,  a  letter 
was  read  from  Rev.  John  M.  Peck,  telling  of  the 
formation  of  Bible  Societies,  and  asking  for  a  box 
of  Magazines  for  free  distribution. 

At  the  same  meeting  a  letter  was  read  from  a 
Brother  Treadwell  in  Hayti  expressing  the  thanks 
of  the  people  for  the  missionary  work  of  Thomas 
Paul.  Further  particulars  from  the  mission  on  that 
island  were  furnished  by  a  communication  from  Rev. 
Asa  Goldsburg,  who  appears  to  have  been  at  that 
time  laboring  there  and  in  need  of  assistance  to  "  ac- 
quire a  knowledge  of  the  French  language." 

An  account  was  given  of  the  situation  of  the 
Indians  at  the  station  where  Rev.  Isaac  McCoy  was 
then  stationed,  the  place  being  what  is  now  known 
as  Niles,  Michigan. 

Special  mention  is  made  of  the  appointment  of 
Rev.  John  M.  Peck  for  six  months.  The  occasion 
of  his  appointment  at  this  time  is  doubtless  due  to  the 
fact  that  he  had  been  for  some  time  previously  in 
the  employ  of  the  foreign  mission  society,  which 
had  been  unable  to  continue  his  labors.  When  he 
wrote  from  the  West  to  this  Society  and  made 
application   for  appointment   by  it,  his  request  was 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  35 

at  once  granted,  and  he  remained  in  the  service  of 
the  Society  with  shght  interruption  until  the  forma- 
tion of  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society 
in  1832. 

The  Trustees  evidently  experienced  a  difficulty, 
not  unknown  at  the  present  time,  in  securing  suitably 
equipped  missionaries  to  preach  in  other  than  the  Eng- 
lish language,  as  we  find  Dr.  Daniel  Sharp  and  Francis 
Wayland,  Jr.,  appointed  a  committee  to  take  such 
measures  as  "  shall  by  them  be  deemed  expedient 
concerning  the  education  of  two  young  colored  men 
with  a  view  to  preparing  them  for  missionary  ser- 
vice in  Hayti."  The  men  were  found  and  entered 
at  Dartmouth  College  at  the  expense  of  the  Society, 
which  also  provided  them  with  a  French  tutor. 

In  1824  the  publication  of  the  Magazine  was 
changed  from  a  bi-monthly  to  a  monthly  periodical. 

During  that  year  an  appointment  was  given  to 
Rev.  Adoniram  Judson,  of  Plymouth,  the  father  of 
the  noted  missionary  bearing  the  same  name. 

During  the  year  1824,  a  missionary  was  appointed 
to  labor  in  the  city  of  Montreal  and  another  in  the 
Province  of  Upper  Canada.  The  work  previously 
begun  at  Fredonia,  New  York,  and  Ashtabula,  Ohio, 
also  engaged  much  of  the  attention  of  the  Society. 
Importunate  appeals,  accompanied  with  vivid  state- 
ments as  to  the  condition  of  religion  and  morals  and 
the  lack  of  suitable  ministers  in  Illinois  and  Missouri, 


36  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

were  laid  before  the  Board  at  every  meeting  by  its 
general  missionary  to  that  region,  Rev.  John  M.  Peck. 
What  he  did  in  opening  up  that  country  to  the  gos- 
pel proved  of  inestimable  value,  both  from  his  labors 
on  the  field  and  the  results  of  his  efforts  for  interest- 
ing the  people  of  the  East  in  the  work  he  had  so 
much  at  heart. 

From  the  annual  report  made  to  the  editors  of 
the  Magazine,  it  seems  that  as  a  monthly  publication 
it  had  reached  a  circulation  of  five  thousand  (5,000) 
copies,  and  provision  was  made  to  furnish  Lucius 
BoUes,  D.  D.,  who  was  then  Secretary  of  the  Foreign 
Board,  with  copies  for  gratuitous  distribution  to  the 
missionaries  on  the  foreign  field. 

During  that  year,  and  years  immediately  succeed- 
ing, the  making  of  appropriations  to  aid  churches  in 
the  support  of  pastors,  which  had  hitherto  been  the 
exception,  became  quite  general,  and  the  list  of 
churches  thus  assisted  contains  the  names  of  many 
which  have  since  become  fields  of  great  importance. 
Among  these  we  find  Saco,  Machias,  Waterville,  and 
South  Berwick,  in  Maine ;  Buffalo,  Oswego,  and 
Amsterdam,  N.  Y.  ;  St.  Louis,  Mo.  ;  Portsmouth, 
Claremont,  Concord,  Peterboro,  Hampton  Falls, 
Great  Falls  (now  Somersworth),  N.  H. ;  also  Bil- 
lerica,  Chelmsford,  Plymouth,  Watertown,  Spring- 
field, Weston,  Taunton,  West  Cambridge  (now 
Arlington),     Gloucester,     Northampton,     Hingham, 


Rev.  Charles  Traix. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  37 

South  Abington  (now  Whitman)  and  Bellingham, 
in  Massachusetts;  with  Bristol  and  several  others, 
in  Rhode  Island. 

That  year  the  irrepressible  Missionary  Peck  ap- 
pealed for  funds,  and  for  the  organization  of  a  Board 
to  establish  a  theological  seminary  in  the  West.  A 
committee  was  appointed,  and  contributions  sohcited 
for  this  purpose,  to  be  deposited  with  the  Society. 

It  is  not  strange  that  in  those  times,  with  opera- 
tions so  greatly  enlarged,  records  should  be  fre- 
quently made  of  inability  to  render  assistance  for 
lack  of  funds.  The  enlarging  field  was  becoming 
too  vast  in  area  and  too  populous  for  the  evangelizing 
agencies  of  the  Baptists  of  a  single  State. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  May,  1825,  Dr.  Thomas 
Baldwin  was  reelected  President.  Perhaps  the  list  of 
officers  and  Trustees  never  in  any  year  contained  more 
eminent  names.  Doctor  Baldwin  presided  at  the  an- 
nual meeting,  and  also  at  a  protracted  session  of  the 
Board  on  May  26th.  Immediately  after  the  meeting 
he  started  on  an  official  visit  to  the  college  at  Water- 
ville,  Me.,  where  he  arrived  and  spent  the  day  of  the 
29th  of  May  in  examining  the  condition  of  affairs  in 
connection  with  the  institution,  and  retired  at  night 
to  awake  in  eternity. 

In  1825,  on  motion  of  Francis  Wayland,  seconded 
by  Doctor  Sharp,  this  suggestive  vote  was  passed : 

"  Resolved,  That  we  as  a  Society  humbly  express  our  entire 
dependence  upon  God,  and  thank  Him  for  the  degree  of  suc- 
cess which  has  attended  the  efforts  of  the  Society  the  past 
year." 

At  the  next  meeting  of  the  Board,  held  on  the  20th 
of  September,  1825,  at  Methuen,  a  letter  was  directed 
to  Mrs.  Baldwin,  expressing  the  sympathy  of  the 
Board  with  her  under  the  "great  affliction  she  had 

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HISTORICAL   SKETCH  39 

experienced  in  the  recent  death  of  her  revered  and 
beloved  husband,"  with  an  expression  of  the  respect 
of  the  Society  for  the  memory  of  its  late  President. 

It  would  seem  that  a  portion  of  the  permanent 
funds  of  the  Society  were  invested  in  government 
bonds  which  had  matured,  as  mention  is  made  of 
a  vote  instructing  the  Treasurer  to  receive  payment 
from  the  government. 

During  the  same  year  the  proprietor  of  The  Chris- 
tian Watchman  requested  that  he  be  allowed  to  make 
arrangements  with  the  Board  which  might  promote 
the  circulation  of  the  paper  as  well  as  the  good  of  the 
Society.  A  committee  was  appointed  to  take  the 
matter  into  consideration,  who  subsequently  reported 
in  favor  of  appointing  a  committee  to  advertise  in  the 
editorial  department  of  the  paper  as  circumstances 
might  require,  but  who  should  not  be  held  responsible 
for  furnishing  matter  for  its  columns.  The  mission- 
aries and  officers  of  the  Society  were  to  interest 
themselves  in  promoting  the  circulation  of  the  paper, 
for  which  a  share  of  the  profits  should  be  paid  into 
its  treasury.  The  committee  appointed  to  assist  the 
editor  consisted  of  Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D.,  and  Francis 
Way  land,  Jr. 

During  the  years  1826-29  the  first  mention  was 
made  in  the  records  of  the  Society  of  the  State  Con- 
vention which  had  been  organized  in  1823;  such 
allusions  in  general  taking  the  form  of  making  appro- 


40  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

priations  to  churches  conditioned  on  their  not  receiving 
duplicate  assistance  from  the  State  Convention. 

In  1826  the  name  of  Asa  Wilbur,  afterward  for  a 
half-century  connected  with  the  Convention,  whose 
manly  presence  and  gracious  words  are  fresh  in  the 
memory  of  some  now  living,  first  appears  as  coming 
before  the  Board  in  the  interest  of  the  church  in 
Hingham.  He  was  a  Director  for  nearly  a  half- 
century,  for  seven  years  the  President  of  the  Con- 
vention, and  prominently  identified  with  the  securing 
to  the  Society  of  the  Bumstead  estate,  which  added 
so  largely  to  its  endowment.  His  active  interest  and 
effort  contributed  much  to  secure  the  preservation  of 
the  church  property  at  Andover  in  a  time  of  peril, 
and  at  his  decease  he  placed  his  large  holdings  in  the 
Bowdoin  Square  meeting-house  property  in  the  hands 
of  the  Convention.  Few  men  whose  names  are  on 
the  noble  list  of  its  faithful  servants,  who  rest  from 
their  labors,  did  more  than  he  to  advance  its  interests. 

At  the  meeting  in  June,  1 826,  a  committee  appeared 
from  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  to  know  on  what 
terms  the  Board  would  transfer  ownership  of  the  Bap- 
tist Missionary  Magazine  to  that  body.  The  matter 
was  referred  to  a  committee  consisting  of  Deacons 
Ensign  Lincoln  and  Levi  Farwell,  who  reported  to 
an  adjourned  meeting  that,  "having  had  a  mutual 
consultation  upon  the  subject,  it  is  their  opinion  that 
several  advantages  would  result  to  religion  generally, 


Deacon  Asa  Wilbur. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  4 1 

and  to  that  of  missions  particularly,  by  transferring 
the  publication  of  the  American  Baptist  Missionary 
Magazine  to  the  American  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions. They  feel  that  such  an  arrangement  would 
better  compare  with  the  idea  of  its  being  a  denomina- 
tional or  national  publication,  that  it  would  increase 
its  circulation  and  thus  more  extensively  diffuse  relig- 
ious intelhgence.  Your  committee,  therefore,  pro- 
pose the  following  resolution  : 

"  Resolved,  That  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  January 
next,  the  American  Baptist  Magazine  be  transferred  to  the 
Baptist  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  on  condition  that  the  work 
continue  to  be  pubHshed  in  Boston,  and  that  one-half  of  the 
profits  be  annually  paid  to  the  Baptist  Missionary  Society  of 
Massachusetts,  provided,  however,  that  the  amount  paid  to  the 
Society  shall  not  exceed  ^500  per  annum." 

The  report  of  the  Committee  was  accepted,  and 
their  recommendation  adopted. 

Considerable  difficulty  was  evidently  found  in  ad- 
justing the  unsettled  accounts  of  the  agents  for  the 
Magazine,  and  the  provision  whereby  it  was  made 
obligatory  on  the  Board  for  Foreign  Missions  to  pay 
one-half  of  the  profits  into  the  treasury  of  the  Society 
was  subsequently  rescinded. 

Church  affairs  at  Watertown,  Mass.,  during  this 
period  occupied  considerable  of  the  time  at  every 
Board  meeting.  The  matter  of  place  as  well  as 
preacher  was   much    debated.     A  vote  was  passed 


42  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

finally  that  the  Society  take  the  management  en- 
tirely into  its  own  hands,  procure  a  hall,  and  employ 
professors  from  the  seminary  at  Newton  for  stated 
supplies. 

About  this  time  a  change  was  made  in  the  method 
of  aiding  churches  in  Ohio,  so  that  the  money  was 
paid  in  a  gross  sum  to  the  Ohio  Missionary  Society, 
to  be  disbursed  by  its  officers. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  1828  it  was  voted  "to 
change  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Society  from  morn- 
ing to  evening,  and  that  the  place  of  the  annual  ser- 
mon be  taken  by  addresses." 

Mention  is  made  of  a  publication  at  this  date,  des- 
ignated as  The  Home  Mission  Magazi7ie^  of  which 
the  Secretary  was  authorized  to  procure  a  copy  at 
the  expense  of  the  Society. 

In  1829  Doctor  Sharp,  who  had  for  sixteen  years 
served  as  Secretary  of  the  Society,  conducted  a  large 
portion  of  its  correspondence,  and  written  all  its  vo- 
luminous records,  whose  writing  during  that  period 
had  changed  from  the  bold,  firm  hand  of  a  man  in  his 
full  vigor  to  the  cramped  and  tremulous  style  pecul- 
iar to  old  age,  retired  from  the  position  of  Secretary, 
and  it  was  voted  that  the  "  thanks  of  the  Society  be 
affectionately  presented  to  Brother  Sharp  for  his 
arduous  services  for  the  past  sixteen  years  as  our 
Secretary." 

He  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Howard  Malcom,  the 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH 


43 


well-known  author  of  the  dictionary  which  bears  his 
name.  A  writer  whose  penmanship  was  exceptionally 
fine,  he  fully  maintained  the  legibility  and  accuracy 
with  which  the  records  had  been  kept  from  the  be- 
ginning. 

The  following  paragraph  from  the  report  for  1828 
is  suggestive : 

"The  Board  are  entirely  of  the  opinion  that  while  able 
agents  are  indispensable  to  the  collection  of  competent  funds 
to  sustain  the  operations  of  the  Board  in  the  support  of  mis- 
sions, their  services  are  not  the  least  productive  missionary 
labor  that  can  be  performed  thereby.  In  many  instances  there 
will  be  as  much  real  advantage  from  judicious  advice  to  churches 
in  the  management  of  their  ecclesiastical  and  pecuniary  affairs 
as  from  such  direct  missionary  aid  as  the  missionary  usually 
performs." 

This  careful  discrimination,  which  may  have  been 
designed  indirectly  to  reply  to  a  criticism  upon  the 
expense  of  agencies,  shows  an  appreciation  of  the 
benefit  which  results  from  the  contact  of  churches 
with  the  representatives  of  missionary  societies,  too 
often  overlooked. 

The  frequency  and  amount  of  the  appropriations 
made  to  the  church  at  Waterville,  Me.,  during  this 
period  shows  that  the  Board  appreciated  the  impor- 
tance of  establishing  the  church  there,  in  a  college 
town,  on  firm  foundations.  In  August  Doctor  Chap- 
lin, of  Waterville,  was  present  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Board,  and  offered  prayer. 


44  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

There  was  a  marked  scarcity  of  missionaries,  and 
it  was  voted  "that  our  Secretary  be  requested  to 
enter  into  extensive  correspondence  throughout  the 
United  States  to  discover  brethren  suitable  to  be- 
come our  missionaries,  and  the  most  important  places 
for  our  cultivation." 

In  1830  mention  was  made  of  a  grant  to  the  Penn- 
sylvania Missionary  Society,  and  an  allusion  to  the 
work  which  the  Society  was  prosecuting  at  Mt, 
Holly,  N.  J. 

A  letter  from  the  Rev.  Jesse  Mercer,  of  Georgia, 
describing  the  condition  of  the  Baptist  churches  in 
that  State,  tells  that  their  great  difficulty  is  the  paucity 
of  ministers.  Rev.  Basil  Manley,  of  Charleston, 
S.  C,  in  answer  to  the  inquiries  of  the  Secretary 
for  men,  also  reported  that  no  brethren  could  be 
spared  from  that  State ;  that  they  had  several 
vacant  churches  for  whom  pastors  could  not  be 
found. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  in  March,  1830,  a 
letter  was  received  from  M.  Moses,  of  Exeter,  N.  H,, 
informing  the  Society  of  a  legacy  by  one  Dolly  Smith 
of  that  place. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  May,  the  records  state 
that  the  audience  was  very  great,  and  manifested  the 
deepest  interest  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Society, 
and  in  the  remarks  of  the  speakers.  Rev.  J.  Newton 
Brown,  of  Exeter,  N.   H.,   and   Rev.  Daniel  Chess- 


Deacon  Levi  Farwell. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  45 

man,  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  who  were  reported  to  have 
spoken  with  much  feeling  and  power. 

Secretary  Malcom  reminded  the  Society  that  he 
only  accepted  the  duties  of  Secretary  for  a  single 
year,  and  could  not  continue  them  on  account  of  the 
condition  of  his  eyes.  In  accordance  with  his  wish 
thus  expressed  he  was  not  reelected,  and  Rev. 
Daniel  Chessman  was  chosen  as  his  successor. 

Mr.  Malcom* s  only  report  as  Secretary  of  the 
Board  was  one  of  the  ablest  ever  presented  to  the 
Society,  discussing  in  considerable  detail  the  religious 
conditions  prevailing  in  different  States,  with  a  review 
of  the  past  history  of  the  Society,  which  had  been  in 
existence  for  twenty-eight  years,  recalling  to  mind 
that  in  "  its  origin  and  primary  efforts  sole  regard 
was  had  to  the  support  of  itinerant  missionary  labors 
amid  settlements  destitute  of  any  stated  ministrations 
of  God's  Word.  On  this  plan  it  continued  for  many 
years  with  great  usefulness.  .  .  .  The  great  change 
in  the  circumstances  of  the  country  has  necessarily 
produced  some  modification  of  this  plan.  A  multi- 
tude of  feeble  churches  are  constituted  which  cannot 
naturally  support  a  pastor,  and  few  neighborhoods 
can  now  be  found  which  do  not  at  times  enjoy  the 
labors  of  some  of  Christ's  public  servants.  While, 
therefore,  the  original  plan  of  itinerancies  continues 
to  receive  a  large  portion  of  attention,  it  is  also  be- 
coming a  common  practice  to  aid  young  and  feeble 


46  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

churches  in  procuring  regular  ministerial  services. 
Thus  $2^  or  $50  often  secures  pastoral  labor  for  six 
months  or  a  whole  year  to  a  church  which  without 
this  gratuity  would  be  wholly  destitute." 

Mr.  Malcom  stated  that  since  the  origin  of  the 
Society  it  had  expended,  previous  to  1830,  more 
than  ;^5 5,000,  which  had  secured  an  amount  of  min- 
isterial service  equal  to  the  labors  of  an  individual 
for  211  years.  In  connection  with  his  report  on 
work  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  he  remarked  :  "  The  case 
calls  imperiously  to  the  Eastern  Baptists  for  help. 
Perhaps  there  is  no  single  point  on  which  we  as  a 
denomination  can  more  advantageously  spend  our 
money  than  on  the  support  of  this  region.  We  have 
nothing  in  the  vast  West  so  important,  and  that 
West  is  the  most  important  part  of  this  country. 
Here  is  a  region  extending  from  the  Pacific  Ocean 
to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  and  from  the  Alleghany  to 
the  Rocky  Mountains,  embracing  a  territory  in  which 
could  be  put  thirty  States  equal  in  size  to  New  York, 
and  which  will  one  day,  perhaps,  contain  two  hundred 
millions  of  inhabitants.  All  New  England  is  a  speck 
to  this  country.  Neither  Greece  nor  Burmah,  nor 
any  other  country,  presents  more  encouragement  to 
missionary  labor,  or  more  loudly  demands  it  at  our 
hand." 

One  of  the  contributions  received  by  the  Treasurer 
was  accompanied  by  the  following  note  : 


Howard  Malcom,  D.  D.,  LL.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  47 

"  Sir  :  —  I  send  you  the  enclosed  Three  Dollars  for  the  use 
of  the  Missionary  Society,  it  being  saved  the  past  year  by  the 
entire  abstinence  from  the  use  of  ardent  spirits  in  any  form, 
and  I  think  duty  requires  that  it  be  cast  into  the  treasury  of 
the  Lord.  Yours  with  respect, ." 

At  the  Board  meeting  in  August,  Rev.  Mr.  Bene- 
dict, of  Rhode  Island,  told  of  the  destitute  condition 
of  a  large  population  on  the  Blackstone  River, 
and  asked  the  appointment  of  a  missionary  to  that 
section,  which  was  granted. 

At  this  meeting  mention  was  made  of  the  comple- 
tion of  a  meeting-house  at  Watertown,  and  the  state- 
ment made  that  a  church  of  forty  members  had  been 
organized. 

Among  the  appropriations  made  in  1829  was  one 
for  the  support  of  a  preacher  at  the  Branch  of  the 
Federal  Street  Church  at  South  Boston,  and  the  re- 
port mentions  that  an  excellent  meeting-house  was 
then  in  process  of  erection. 

An  appropriation  of  ^100  was  made  to  the  church 
at  Newburn,  N.  C.  Further  aid  was  also  granted 
the  church  in  Concord,  N.  H. 

The  large  number  of  appointments  made  would 
seem  to  indicate  a  good  condition  of  the  treasury. 
One  was  for  a  missionary  to  labor  in  Adams  and 
Jefferson  Counties,  iMissouri.  Appropriations  for  the 
support  of  missionaries  in  nearly  every  State  were 
made  during  this  year  ;  also  for  the  translation  of  the 


48  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

Scriptures  into  Burmese ;  a  certain  investment  in 
the  City  and  Columbia  Bank  being  transferred  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Foreign  Board  for  this  purpose. 

In  1830  an  appropriation  of  ;^ioo  was  made  for 
the  support  of  preaching  in  the  Baptist  meeting- 
house in  South  Boston. 

This  year,  through  Howard  Malcom,  a  safe  was 
procured  for  the  safe-keeping  of  the  Society's  books 
and  papers. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  183 1,  held  with  the 
First  Church,  Boston,  the  acceptance  of  the  Treas- 
urer's report  was  moved  by  Rev,  Baron  Stow,  of 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  seconded  by  Hon.  Heman 
Lincoln.  The  audience  was  large  and  attentive. 
Rev.  Joseph  Grafton,  who  had  been  President  since 
Doctor  Baldwin's  death,  was  reelected,  with  Rev. 
Charles  Train  for  Vice-President,  William  Leverett 
as  Secretary,  and  Ensign  Lincoln  as  Treasurer.  The 
place  of  meeting  of  the  Board  was  designated  as 
"Missionary  Rooms,  No.  52  Washington  Street, 
Boston." 

In  response  to  a  request  from  the  Rhode  Island 
Convention,  ^200  was  appropriated  for  its  assistance  ; 
perhaps  as  a  return  of  what  had  been  expended  by 
the  Rhode  Island  Society  in  the  formation  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church,  Fall  River. 

At  this  time  money  was  expended  quite  freely  in 
laying  the  foundations  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  such 


Barox  Stow,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  49 

liberality  proved  a  good  investment  indeed  for  the 
denomination. 

At  the  Board  meeting  in  August,  1831,  Brethren 
Daniel  Sharp,  Lucius  Bolles,  and  James  D.  Knowles 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  confer  with  the 
brethren  expected  to  graduate  from  the  next  class 
at  Newton,  and  expend  j^ioo  for  each  one  of  those 
who  would  settle  in  the  West  as  missionaries  of  the 
Society. 


CHAPTER   VII. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  held  on  November  9, 
1 83 1,  this  most  important  action  was  taken  :  a  com- 
munication was  read  from  Rev,  Henry  Jackson, 
stating  that  at  a  meeting  of  several  gentlemen  held 
in  Boston  on  Monday,  November  7th,  Rev.  Jonathan 
Going,  being  present,  read  an  extract  from  his  journal 
kept  during  a  tour  through  the, Western  country 
from  which  he  had  just  returned  ;  after  which  it  was 
voted  that  the  report  of  Mr,  Going  be  read  before 
the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society,  with 
the  request  that  it  would  "devise  some  system  of 
efficient  operations  by  which  the  interest  of  piety  and 
of  the  Baptist  denomination  may  be  promoted  in  the 
Western  part  of  our  country." 

Voted,  To  hear  the  report  of  Mr.  Going,  after 
which  a  committee  was  appointed  consisting  of  Doc- 
tors Daniel  Sharp  and  Lucius  S,  Bolles  and  Revs, 
James  D.  Knowles,  and  Henry  Jackson,  to  take  the 
subject  into  consideration  and  report  such  measure 
as  they  might  deem  it  advisable  for  the   Board  to 

50 


William  D.  Ticknor. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  5  I 

adopt.  The  committee,  after  consultation,  recom- 
mended the  following  resolutions,  which  were  unani- 
mously adopted,  viz.  : 

"  I.  Resolved,  That  measures  ought  to  be  immediately 
adopted  for  organizing  a  Home  Mission  Society,  either  by 
modifying  the  operations  of  this  Society,  or  by  forming  an- 
other. 

"  2.  Resolved,  That  the  committee  be  nominated  for  the 
formation  of  such  a  Society,  with  the  authority  to  employ  an 
agent,  if  they  shall  think  it  advisable,  and  to  hold  such  com- 
munications with  individuals  in  other  parts  of  the  country  as 
they  shall  deem  it  to  be  necessary. 

"3.  Resolved,  That  it  is  expedient  to  proceed  immediately, 
so  far  as  our  funds  will  permit,  to  appoint  missionaries  to  labor 
in  the  Valley  of  the  Mississippi. 

"  4.  Resolved,  That  in  the  opinion  of  this  Board,  it  is  the 
duty  of  Rev.  Jonathan  Going  to  devote  himself  to  the  promo- 
tion of  the  cause  of  the  Saviour  in  the  Valley  of  the  Missis- 
sippi." 

Voted,  That  the  committee  referred  to  in  the 
second  resolution  above  consist  of  Revs.  Daniel 
Sharp,  Lucius  S.  Bolles,  James  D.  Knowles,  Henry 
Jackson,  and  Heman  Lincoln. 

An  appropriation  of  ^100  was  made  this  year 
to  the  church  in  Augusta,  Maine,  on  condition  that 
preaching  be  maintained,  and  the  court-house  se- 
cured for  a  place  of  worship. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  in  February,  1832,  the 
committee  appointed  at  the  last  meeting  to  devise 
measures  relative  to  the  formation  of  a  Home  Mission 


52  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

Society,  etc.,  reported  that  Doctors  Sharp  and  Bolles 
and  Rev.  Jonathan  Going  had  visited  New  York, 
and  conferred  on  the  subject  with  the  brethren  in  the 
State.  Their  report  was  "  that  it  was  inexpedient  to 
organize  a  new  society  immediately,  and  it  was  desir- 
able to  have  further  consultation  on  the  subject  with 
brethren  in  other  parts  of  the  country;  to  effect 
this,  that  Rev.  Jonathan  Going  be  appointed  to  that 
service." 

Voted,  To  accept  the  report  of  this  committee,  and 
defray  their  travelling  expenses. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  1832,  Rev.  Joseph  Graf- 
ton, who  had  served  the  Society  as  President  ever 
since  the  death  of  Doctor  Baldwin,  declined  further 
service,  and  the  Secretary  makes  this  note  and  com- 
ment on  this  action  :  "  Rev.  Mr.  Grafton  was  unani- 
mously nominated  for  President,  but  at  his  earnest 
request  was  excused  from  again  serving  the  Society 
in  this  capacity."  Of  the  fourteen  ministers  whose 
names  were  officially  among  the  members  at  the 
organization  of  the  Society  two  only  survived.  Of 
these  two,  Mr.  Grafton  was  one  and  Rev.  John  Peak 
the  other. 

Between  the  quarterly  meeting  of  February  8, 
1832,  and  the  annual  meeting  of  the  next  May,  it 
would  seem  that  the  organization  of  the  Home  Mis- 
sion Society  had  been  effected,  as  the  minutes 
of  the  proceedings  contain  this  item  : 


William  Lam  son,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  53 

"  Rev.  Jonathan  Going,  Secretary  of  the  Home  Mission 
Society,  addressed  the  congregation  for  ten  or  fifteen  minutes." 

At  the  Board  meeting  of  the  Trustees  subsequently 
held,  it  was  — 

"  Resolved,  That  the  Board  now  elected  be  authorized  and 
instructed  to  form  such  a  union,  and  so  cooperate  with  the 
American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  as  will  best  promote 
the  great  object  of  its  organization. 

"  Also  Voted,  That  the  Secretary  write  to  the  Treasurer  of 
the  Home  Mission  Society,  Deacon  Colgate,  expressing  our 
cordial  friendship  for  that  Society,  and  our  intention  to  aid 
its  operations  as  our  means  may  enable  us ;  that  the  Board 
have  appropriated  to  their  use  $200,  which  may  be  called  for 
at  their  pleasure." 

A  foot-note  below  the  records  of  the  quarterly 
meeting  in  November  of  this  year  reads:  "Mr. 
Ensign  Lincoln,  Treasurer  of  the  Society,  died  De- 
cember 2,  1832,  Lord's  Day  evening.  He  had  served 
the  Society  as  its  Treasurer  for  about  twenty-two 
years." 

At  the  next  meeting  it  was  — 

«'  Resolved,  That  this  Board  cherish  a  grateful  and  affection- 
ate recollection  of  the  services  of  their  late  Treasurer,  Mr. 
Ensign  Lincoln.  They  deeply  feel  for  themselves  the  loss  they 
have  sustained  in  his  decease,  and  would  express  their  sincere 
sympathies  for  his  bereaved  and  afflicted  family." 

A  high  sense  of  honor  and  Christian  courtesy 
would   seem  to  have  characterized  all  the  business 


54  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

proceedings  of  the  Society  from  the  beginning,  and 
among  the  acts  of  the  year  1834,  we  find  that  upon 
the  discovery  that  an  appropriation  made  several 
years  before  had  never  been  paid,  the  missionary 
who  suffered  the  loss  was  paid  in  full  with  interest. 

As  a  natural  result  of  the  organization  of  a  new 
Society  and  the  transfer  to  it  of  so  large  a  portion  of 
the  work,  some  confusion  attended  the  period  of  re- 
adjustment, but  as  fast  as  possible  the  work  outside 
of  New  England  seems  to  have  been  transferred  to 
the  Home  Mission  Society. 

A  Society  known  as  the  Western  Baptist  Educa- 
tional Association,  was  organized  in  Boston  on  the 
30th  of  May,  1832,  for  the  promotion  of  good  schools 
and  education  generally  in  the  valley  of  the  Mississippi, 
to  be  under  the  direction  of  pious,  competent  teach- 
ers. While  of  brief  existence,  some  $2,000  was  raised 
and  applied  to  the  special  training  of  teachers  for 
the  West,  and  in  introducing  them  to  their  fields  of 
labor.  Much  effort  was  made  by  correspondence  to 
induce  the  inhabitants  of  the  new  towns  and  cities  of 
the  West  to  establish  schools  in  every  neighborhood, 
and  academies  at  proper  distances,  having  in  mind 
that  instruction  in  Biblical  theology  be  given  in  the 
academies,  and  the  way  thus  gradually  prepared  for 
colleges  and  universities. 

This  Society  was  one  of  the  three  united  in  the 
Convention  at  the  time  of  its  reorganization. 


Samuel  B.  Swaim,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  55 

The  young  men  who  engaged  in  this  educational 
work  were  accustomed  to  visit  a  community,  hire  a 
room,  provide  such  furniture  as  seemed  indispensa- 
ble, canvass  the  community  for  pupils,  and  open  the 
school,  depending  upon  their  patrons  for  compensa- 
tion. If  they  gave  satisfaction,  their  labors  met  with 
moderate  recompense,  but  in  some  cases  it  proved 
otherwise,  and  lack  of  patronage  soon  compelled  their 
retirement. 

Rev.  Bela  Jacobs,  then  pastor  of  what  is  now  known 
as  the  Second  Baptist  Church,  Cambridge,  was  also 
sent  by  the  Society  into  the  Western  Valley  to  "  ex- 
plore its  vast  prairies.  States,  and  Territories,  and 
ascertain  their  condition,  and  into  various  parts  of 
New  England  to  secure,  encourage,  and  direct  suit- 
able teachers  to  go  out  to  establish  and  maintain 
schools." 

Mr.  Jacobs  met  with  a  violent  death  at  the  door 
of  his  meeting-house  in  East  Cambridge.  While  at- 
tempting to  step  from  his  carriage  to  enter  the  church 
to  conduct  morning  worship,  his  horse  started  and 
he  was  thrown  to  the  ground  and  almost  instantly 
killed. 

1833.  This  year  witnessed  the  termination  of  a 
struggle  for  entire  separation  of  Church  and  State 
which  had  extended  over  more  than  a  century,  and 
none  had  greater  occasion  for  rejoicing  than  the 
Baptists  w^ho  had  suffered  much  injustice  by  being 


56  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

taxed  for  the  support  of  a  State  church.  Massachu- 
setts Baptists  were  first  and  foremost  in  the  assertion 
of  the  principles  of  soul  liberty  and  universal  tolera- 
tion, and  in  extending  their  efforts  to  secure  the 
incorporation  of  their  cherished  principles  into  the 
national  Constitution,  and  afterward  to  the  other 
States  of  New  England.  The  struggle  finally  ended 
where  it  began,  and  had  been  most  bitter  —  in  Massa- 
chusetts. Nowhere  else,  it  would  seem,  were  the 
champions  of  the  support  of  religion  by  the  State  so 
persistent.  The  triumph  was  finally  secured  through 
the  submission  to  the  people  of  an  amendment  to  the 
Constitution,  which  was   ratified    at  the  polls   Nov. 

II,  1833- 

The  amendment  as  at  first  proposed  in  the  year 
1820,  by  Rev.  N.  W.  Williams,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention,  failed  of  adoption 
by  the  narrow  margin  of  179  votes  in  favor  to  186 
opposed ;  Daniel  Webster,  then  a  member,  voting 
and  speaking  in  opposition  to  the  change. 

As  early  in  the  history  of  the  Society  as  1822, 
considerable  dissatisfaction  was  felt  over  the  seeming 
neglect  of  aggressive  work  in  the  State  in  conse- 
quence of  the  Society's  resources  being  so  severely 
taxed  by  the  demands  in  regions  more  remote  —  in 
the  West  in  particular.  As  a  result,  at  a  meeting 
held  in  connection  with  the  anniversary  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts   Baptist    Missionary    Society    on    May    26, 


Hon.  Isaac  Davis. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH 


S7 


1824,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  prepare  and 
issue  a  circular  to  the  Baptist  churches  in  Massachu- 
setts on  the  subject  of  a  State  Convention.  The 
formation  of  a  Convention  for  the  two  States  of 
Massachusetts  and  Rhode  Island  was  also  recom- 
mended by  the  Warren  Association  at  its  annual 
meeting.  The  committee  was  authorized,  if  the 
response  was  favorable,  to  issue  a  call  for  a  meeting 
and  prepare  a  Preamble  and  Constitution,  which  was 
done,  and  on  November  loth  a  meeting  was  held  at 
the  First  Baptist  meeting-house  in  Boston,  for  the 
purpose  of  forming  a  Convention  of  the  Baptist  de- 
nomination in  Massachusetts. 

The  call  was  for  delegates  chosen  by  the  respective 
Associations. 

The  Warren  Association  was  represented  by 
Reverends  Stephen  Gano,  William  Gamwell,  Silas 
Hall,  and  Francis  Wayland,  Jr. 

From  the  Boston  Association  came  Reverends 
Thomas  Baldwin,  Lucius  S.  Bolles,  John  Parkhurst, 
Charles  Train,  Messrs.  Charles  O.  Kimball  and  Levi 
Farwell. 

From  the  Worcester  Association,  Reverends  Jona- 
than Going,  Elisha  Andrews,  and  Abial  Fisher,  Jr. 

From  the  Old  Colony,  Reverends  Benjamin  C. 
Grafton  and  Samuel  Glover. 

From  the  Westfield,  Reverends  David  Wright  and 
Samuel  Abbott. 


58  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

From  the  Leyden,  Reverend  James  Parsons. 

The  meeting  organized  with  the  choice  of  Rev. 
Stephen  Gano,  moderator,  and  Charles  O.  Kimball, 
clerk. 

After  prayer  by  the  moderator,  ministering  breth- 
ren present  were  invited  to  participate  in  the  deliber- 
ations. The  circular  addressed  to  the  churches  and 
the  call  of  the  meeting  were  then  read,  and  after 
discussion,  which  continued  through  three  sessions, 
the  draft,  after  being  somewhat  amended,  was 
adopted.  (For  full  text  of  the  same  see  Appendix 
B,  page  221.) 

The  new  Society  thus  formed  was  composed  of 
delegates  chosen  by  the  several  Associations  in  Mas- 
sachusetts, in  the  proportion  of  one  delegate  to  every 
five  churches,  and  a  certificate  of  election  to  this  ser- 
vice, signed  by  the  clerk  of  the  Association,  was 
required  from  each  delegate. 

The  permanent  organization  was  effected  by  choos- 
ing Rev.  Lucius  Bolles,  D.  D.,  President  (Thomas 
Baldwin,  D.  D.,  was  first  chosen,  but  declined  ser- 
vice). Rev.  Stephen  Gano,  Vice  -  President,  Rev. 
Francis  Wayland,  Jr.,  Corresponding  Secretary,  Rev, 
Jonathan  Going,  Recording  Secretary,  and  Deacon 
Levi  Farwell,  Treasurer. 

The  fact  that  the  membership  of  the  body  was 
almost  identical  with  that  of  the  Missionary  Society 
attests    to  the  friendly   relations    between    the   two 


^^ 


Hon.  George  N.   Briggs. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  59 

bodies,  and  shows  conclusively  that  the  organization 
of  the  Convention  originated  from  within  the  Mission- 
ary Society,  It  is  quite  evident  that  in  the  scope 
of  its  proposed  work  was  included  an  effort  to  secure 
closer  relations  between  the  Baptist  churches  of  the 
State,  or  rather  between  the  churches  connected  with 
the  Associations  of  the  State.  It  will  be  noticed  that 
Rev.  Stephen  Gano,  elected  as  Vice-President,  was 
pastor  of  the  First  Church  in  Providence.  The 
statistics  pubHshed  for  that  year  show  that  these 
Associations  included  a  number  of  churches  located 
in  other  States. 

The  preamble  stated  that  the  great  object  of  the 
Convention  was  "  To  promote  the  Cause  of  Christ 
by  means  of  affording  greater  facilities  for  concert 
and  cooperation  among  the  Baptist  churches  in  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  other  churches  associated  with  them." 
But  slight  mention  was  made  in  the  original  Consti- 
tution of  an  intention  to  conduct  missionary  oper- 
ations, but  provision  was  made  for  the  Society  to  act 
in  a  measure  as  a  clearing-house  to  receive  from 
churches  contributions  for  missionary  objects,  and 
transmit  the  same  to  the  treasurers  of  the  respective 
Societies.  While  such  may  have  been  the  chief  in- 
tent, the  Convention  very  soon  began  to  aid  churches 
in  a  small  way.  As  early  as  the  next  session,  the 
Board  was  instructed  so  far  as  possible  to  render 
their  missionaries  stationary.     This  indicates  within 


60  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

the  limits  of  the  State  the  general  line  of  demarkation 
between  the  Missionary  Society  and  the  Convention, 
the  work  of  the  former  being  chiefly  itinerary,  while 
that  of  the  latter  was  more  directly  appHed  to  the 
sustaining  of  a  settled  ministry  over  the  churches. 

Four  years  later  an  address  to  the  churches  in 
behalf  of  the  Convention,  prepared  by  Rev.  Rufus 
Babcock,  of  Salem,  makes  the  following  statement 
with  reference  to  the  origin  of  the  Society :  "  Four 
years  since,  in  view  of  the  many  destitute  churches, 
and  with  the  hope  that  something  efficient  might  be 
done  by  combining  our  labors  and  counsels  for  their 
supply  and  for  the  infusion  of  the  gospel,  this  Con- 
vention after  mature  and  prayerful  consideration  was 
organized." 

The  statistics  of  the  Associations  represented  gave 
a  total  membership  of  15,161,  of  which  2,418 
belonged  to  churches  without  the  State. 

A  significant  feature  of  this  list  was  the  large 
number  of  unassociated  churches,  showing  at  this 
date  that  the  fear  of  ecclesiastical  domination  still 
made  many  churches  distrustful  of  missionary  organ- 
izations. 

At  the  anniversary  in  1825,  during  the  free  con- 
ference upon  the  state  of  religion,  which  was  held  in 
connection  with  each  annual  meeting.  Rev.  Joseph 
Grafton  made  touching  allusion  to  the  death  of 
Rev.   Ebenezer    Nelson  and    Dr.   Thomas   Baldwin, 


Robert  C.  Mills,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  6 1 

with  whom  he  had  for  thirty-five  years  been  con- 
nected in  the  Christian  ministry,  and  in  uninterrupted 
brotherly  love.  During  the  thirty-eight  years  of  his 
connection  with  the  Boston  and  Warren  Associations 
as  pastor  of  a  church,  his  associates,  Brethren 
Manning  and  Skillman,  Stillman,  Backus,  and  Smith, 
had  died,  leaving  him,  with  one  other,  whom  he  does 
not  name,  the  only  aged  ministers  in  the  Boston  Asso- 
ciation. In  connection  with  his  judicious  and  force- 
ful remarks  upon  education,  he  quoted  a  remark 
which  the  Reverend  Doctor  Manning  made  many 
years  previous,  when  preaching  from  these  words, 
"  Study  to  show  thyself  approved  unto  God,  a  work- 
man that  needeth  not  to  be  ashamed:"  "Should 
a  minister  have  whatever  literary  qualifications  you 
please,  if  he  has  not  an  experimental  knowledge 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  he  must  be  a  workman 
who  has  need  to  be  ashamed." 

The  report  upon  the  state  of  domestic  missions 
made  grateful  mention  of  the  success  which  had 
attended  the  labors  of  the  parent  Society : 

"  The  hearts  of  thousands  of  saints  who  once  enjoyed  the 
privileges  of  the  gospel  in  more  favored  parts  of  the  country, 
but  who  had  been  providentially  removed  to  destitute  regions, 
have  been  made  to  rejoice  in  the  visits  and  labors  of  its  mis- 
sionaries, while  multitudes  of  sinners  but  for  these  labors  of 
love  might  have  perished  for  lack  of  the  knowledge  of  the 
truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus.  Small  and  feeble  churches  have  been 
encouraged   and  comforted,   and  many   churches  have   been 


62  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

gathered  by  their  labors.  In  some  regions  of  the  country,  the 
territories,  which  now  contain  large  and  flourishing  associa- 
tions, were  for  a  time  chiefly,  or  perhaps  exclusively,  supplied 
with  preaching  by  the  efforts  of  this  Society." 


CHAPTER   VIII. 

Naturally  enough  the  organization  of  the  Home 
Mission  Society  turned  the  attention  of  members  of 
the  Missionary  Society  and  the  Convention  to  the 
desirability  of  union.  With  the  ehmination  of  the 
work  outside  of  Massachusetts,  the  denomination  was 
left  with  two  State  missionary  organizations  upon  its 
hands. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Trustees  held  on  November 
II,  1834,  it  was  recorded  that  they  were  met  by 
Brethren  Abisha  N,  Sanderson,  Addison  Parker,  and 
Eben  Thresher,  a  committee  appointed  by  the  State 
Convention  at  their  late  meeting,  to  confer  with  the 
Trustees  respecting  the  amalgamation  of  the  two 
societies  in  such  a  way  that  the  business  might  be 
transacted  by  one  Board,  and  thus  have  but  one 
domestic  missionary  society  in  the  State.  After 
some  attention  to  other  business,  they  entered  upon 
a  discussion  of  the  subject  of  amalgamating  this 
Society  with  the  Convention.  It  was  proposed  that 
"this  Society  shall  change  its  name,  taking  that  of 
'The  State  Convention,'  as  similar  Conventions  exist 
in  nearly  all  the  States  of  the  Union,  and  that  the 

63 


64  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

Board  of  the  Convention  take  charge  of  the  home 

mission  affairs  of  the  Commonwealth." 

After  a  free  and  full  discussion  of  the  subject,  on 

motion  of  Rev.  Baron  Stow,  it  was  — 

"  Voted,  That  in  the  opinion  of  this  Board  it  is  expedient 
that  the  proposed  amalgamation  take  place." 

The  following  resolutions  were  passed  unanimously, 
namely  : 

"  Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  raised  to  ascer- 
tain whether  a  change  of  name  of  this  Society  to  that  of  '  The 
Massachusetts  Baptist  Convention,'  and  a  transfer  of  its  funds, 
responsibilities,  etc.,  can  be  made  without  prejudice  to  either, 
and  that  they  be  authorized  to  take  legal  counsel  in  the 
premises. 

'■'■Resolved,  That  in  case  they  become  satisfied  that  such 
change  can  consistently  be  made,  they  proceed  to  draw  up 
and  present  to  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  a  petition 
for  the  same,  combining  such  methods  of  action  as  the  inter- 
ests of  the  denomination,  and  particularly  of  home  missions, 
require. 

^^  Resolved,  That  Lucius  S.  Bolles,  William  Leverett,  and 
Jonathan  Aldrich  be  a  committee  to  confer  with  aforesaid 
committee. 

"  Voted,  That  the  committee  for  the  Convention  be  chosen 
to  act  with  the  above  named  committee  in  preparing  a  Consti- 
tution and  by-laws  for  the  new  Society,  should  such  a  Society 
be  formed. 

"  Voted,  That  the  committee  of  this  Board  be  authorized  to 
call  a  meeting  of  the  Society,  should  that  be  deemed  necessary, 
and  be  found  practicable." 

The  committee  from  the  Convention  held  a  meeting 
and  passed  the  following  resolution  : 


Hon.  J.  M.  S.  Williams. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  6$ 

"/Resolved,  That  the  committee  on  behalf  of  The  Massa- 
chusetts Baptist  Convention  to  confer  with  the  Board  of  The 
Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society,  with  a  view  to  the 
amalgamation  of  the  two  Societies,  are  fully  satisfied  with  the 
measures  of  the  Missionary  Board  as  already  entered  into  upon 
this  subject,  and  that  we  ardently  hope  that  the  arrangements 
proposed  may  be  carried  into  effect. 

[Signed]  Abisha  Sanderson. 

Addison  Parker. 
Ebenezer  Thresher." 

At  the  next  meeting  of  the  Trustees  it  was  re- 
ported by  the  Secretary,  in  behalf  of  the  committee 
appointed  at  the  former  meeting  to  take  legal  advice 
on  the  matter  of  changing  the  name  of  the  Society 
to  that  of  "The  State  Convention,"  and  to  petition 
the  general  court  for  the  purpose,  that  the  agents  con- 
sulted on  the  subject  were  of  the  opinion  "  that  the 
proposed  alteration  may  take  place,  and  that  the 
Board  can  petition  the  Legislature  for  a  change  of 
name." 

This  report  was  accepted,  after  which  it  was  voted 
that  the  committee  proceed  to  accomplish  the  object 
for  which  they  were  appointed,  and  that  they  be 
authorized  to  obtain  the  assistance  of  some  legal 
agent.  The  Rev'ds  Baron  Stow  and  Elisha  S. 
Williams  were  added  to  the  committee. 

At  a  meeting  held  on  the  17th  of  March,  1835, 
a  report  was  made  by  Doctor  Bolles  on  behalf  of  the 
committee  on  change  of  name  of  this  Society,  stating 


66  HISTORICAL    SKETCH 

that  the  charter  petitioned  for  had  been  obtained.  It 
was  then  voted  "  to  authorize  the  Secretary  to  inform 
the  Convention  of  what  had  been  done,  and  after  this 
pray  that  they  may  proceed  to  make  arrangements 
for  assuming  the  funds  and  responsibilities  of  this 
Society." 

At  this  meeting  the  last  appropriations  of  the 
Society  under  its  old  name  to  churches  were  made, 
recipients  being  the  churches  in  Kennebunk  and 
Augusta,  Me. 

On  the  27th  of  May,  1835,  the  thirty-third  annual 
meeting  was  held.  After  the  election  of  officers, 
what  the  Trustees  had  done  in  relation  to  petition- 
ing the  Legislature,  and  of  changing  the  name  of  the 
Society  to  that  of  the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Conven- 
tion, etc.,  was  submitted  to  the  Society,  upon  which 
the  following  vote  was  unanimously  passed : 

'■'■Resolved^  That  the  Society  approve  what  has  been  done  by 
Trustees,  and  that  the  whole  be  submitted  to  the  acceptance  of 
the  Convention  by  that  body." 

The  trust  was  accepted,  and  the  officers  chosen 
were  approved  as  the  officers  of  the  Society  under 
its  new  name  for  the  ensuing  year. 

Rev.  Alonzo  King,  the  last  Secretary  of  the  Con- 
vention, was  elected  to  the  same  position  after  the 
reorganization,  and  entered  upon  his  labors  with 
great  zeal  and  much  promise  of  usefulness ;  but 
the   record    of   his    work    is    brief.     "  He   saw   and 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  6/ 

deeply  felt  the  wants  of  the  churches  and  of  the 
country,  and,  listening  to  the  solicitations  of  his 
brethren,  he  took  upon  himself  this  toilsome  office. 
Knowing  the  little  that  had  been  accomplished,  and 
feeling  desirous  to  see  the  cause  prosper,  he  laid  too 
violently  hold  of  the  business  for  his  physical  ener- 
gies, and  fell  a  victim  to  his  attachment  to  Zion." 
We  may  not  wonder  that  he  broke  under  the  strain 
when  we  note  his  plan  of  operations  :  "  The  Secretary 
of  the  Convention  designs  visiting  every  convention, 
meeting  of  ministers  and  missionary  society  and 
church  and  congregation  in  the  denomination  in  the 
Commonwealth,  to  lay  before  them  the  objects  of 
the  Convention  and  obtain  their  cooperation.  .  .  . 
He  will  also  correspond  with  individual  and  collec- 
tive bodies  in  reference  to  these  grand  objects." 

He  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Charles  O.  Kimball, 
who  during  the  remaining  nine  months  of  the  year 
1835-36,  visited  eight  Associations,  seven  conven- 
tions, eighty-two  churches  ;  attended  eleven  church- 
meetings,  five  ordinations  and  installations ;  visited 
and  addressed  thirty  Sabbath  schools  ;  delivered  1 20 
addresses  and  sermons,  and  travelled  4,037  miles. 

Of  the  officers  in  general,  it  may  be  said  that  the 
selection  appears  to  have  been  made  from  the  mem- 
bers of  each  of  the  uniting  societies.  With  this  union 
the  original  name  disappears  for  a  time. 

At  the  next  anniversary,  held  on  the  26th  of  May, 


68  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

1836,  the  annual  report  made  this  fitting  mention  of 
the  past : 

"  This  Society  has  long  and  deservedly  held  a  place  in  the 
affections  and  participated  in  the  contributions  of  the  rehgious 
public.  It  has  contributed  no  small  share  to  the  interest  which 
the  anniversaries  of  this  consecrated  week  have  in  former  years 
excited.  At  its  annual  meeting  we  have  met  the  venerable 
fathers  in  our  denomination,  and  witnessed  their  zeal  and  lib- 
erality in  the  cause  of  God.  Its  nativity  is  marked  with  the 
very  commencement  of  the  nineteenth  century ;  it  is  the  first 
Baptist  Missionary  Society  ever  established  in  this  country. 
It  was  founded  in  this  city  May  26,  1802,  just  thirty-four  years 
ago  this  day.  It  had  its  origin  in  the  prayers,  and  was  watered 
by  the  tears  of  those  holy  men  now  with  God,  —  Stillman, 
Smith,  Baldwin,  Gano,  and  their  associates.  They  saw  the 
whitening  fields  around  them,  and  entered  into  their  labors 
with  alacrity   and  joy. 

"  Through  the  instrumentalities  of  this  Society,  a  large 
number  of  feeble  churches  have  been  revived  and  enlarged ; 
and  thousands  of  immortal  souls  have  been  brought  under  the 
saving  influence  of  the  gospel.  Its  missionaries  have  travelled 
and  preached  in  almost  every  State  and  Territory  in  the  Union, 
the  British  Provinces,  and  some  of  the  West  India  Islands. 
This  Society  has  employed  more  than  190  different  mission- 
aries, who  have  faithfully  and  successfully  labored  in  its  service 
for  a  period  in  the  aggregate  of  more  than  230  years.  Its  re- 
ceipts and  disbursements  have  exceeded  the  sum  of  $70,000. 
Naught  but  the  annals  of  eternity  can  disclose  the  amount  of 
good  accomplished  and  the  number  of  precious  souls  saved  by 
these  holy  and  untiring  labors  of  love." 

In  something  like  a  song  of  triumph,  the  report 
goes  on  to  speak  as  follows  of  the  union  which 
has  been  effected  : 


George  Barton  Ide,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  69 

"  The  friends  and  patrons  of  domestic  missions  have 
been  long  and  ardently  desirous  of  obtaining  a  simple 
and  efficient  organization  in  this  important  department 
of  benevolent  effort  throughout  this  ancient  Commonwealth  ; 
an  organization  economical  in  its  expenditures,  vigorous 
in  its  operations,  and  uniting  all  their  energies,  while  it 
should  with  the  utmost  kindness  equally  and  judiciously  dis- 
pense its  benefactions  to  all  the  deserving  applicants ;  an 
organization  which  should  embrace  the  combined  efforts  of 
the  whole  denomination  in  this  Commonwealth  in  sending  the 
gospel  to  the  great  Western  Valley,  and  in  aiding  our  feeble 
churches  and  supplying  destitute  places  at  home ;  and  an 
organization  which  should  present  this  momentous  subject 
before  the  Christian  community  sometime  during  the  week  of 
our  religious  festivities,  affording  them  an  opportunity  of  con- 
gratulating the  friends  of  our  adorable  Redeemer  upon  the 
prosperity  of  the  cause,  and  soliciting  their  fervent  prayers  and 
liberal  contributions. 

"  This  grand  object,  so  desirable  in  itself,  and  so  important 
to  the  pfomotion  of  the  cause  of  Christ  in  the  midst  of  us,  it 
is  confidently  believed  has  been  accomplished  by  the  recent 
changes  in  our  domestic  operations.  For  strict  attention  to 
the  personal  piety  of  individual  members  of  a  Christian  church, 
and  to  the  spirituality  and  discipline  of  the  churches  in  a  de- 
nomination are  of  vital  importance  to  the  prosperity  of  Zion. 
These  alterations  were  brought  about  by  means  of  an  amalga- 
mation of  three  distinct  societies  into  one,  viz.  : 

"  The  Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society,  The  Con- 
vention, and  The  Western  Baptist  Education  Society." 


CHAPTER   IX. 

At  the  thirty-fourth  anniversary,  a  report  was 
made  of  aid  rendered  to  thirty-one  churches  in  the 
support  of  pastors,  while  the  Westfield  Evangelical 
Benevolent  Society,  the  Wendell  Missionary  Society, 
the  Domestic  Missionary  Society  of  the  Barnstable 
Association,  and  a  similar  organization  in  the  Old 
Colony  Association,  also  aided  ten  churches,  of  which 
specific  mention  was  made.  Many  others  were  prob- 
ably aided.  On  the  list  of  churches  receiving  aid 
that  year  are  several  that  have  long  since  become 
among  the  strongest  churches  in  the  State ;  for 
example,  Athol,  Fitchburg  First,  Medway,  Gardner, 
Springfield  First,  Taunton,  Winchendon,  and  Glou- 
cester First. 

At  this  time,  and  for  several  succeeding  years, 
Charles  O.  Kimball,  the  Secretary,  devoted  his 
entire  time  to  the  work  of  the  Convention,  and 
until  the  unsatisfactory  financial  condition  eventu- 
ally led  to  the  dispensing  with  the  services  of  a  paid 
Secretary. 

Under  the  arrangements  which  then  existed  with 
70 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  J I 

the  Home  Mission  Society,  in  addition  to  whatever 
was  received  as  designated  for  Home  Missions,  the 
Convention  contributed  from  its  treasury  all  its  re- 
ceipts in  excess  of  ^3,000.  During  the  first  year 
after  the  reorganization,  the  total  receipts  of  the 
Convention  were  ^3,579.96;  for  Home  Missions, 
;^i, 346.92  ;  for  the  Western  Educational  Work  Asso- 
ciation, $1 19.65.  The  following  year  showed  a  pain- 
ful decrease  in  the  receipts  for  distinctly  State  work, 
and  the  decline  continued  until  a  considerable  debt 
had  been  incurred,  and  the  Society  became  so  handi- 
capped by  debt  that  for  several  years  very  few 
appropriations  were  made. 

It  is  difficult  to  understand  fully  what  were  the 
causes  that  led  to  this  decline  in  interest  on  the  part 
of  the  churches  in  State  Missions.  Perhaps  the  great 
interest  in  Foreign  Missions,  and  the  attractiveness  of 
the  work  of  the  Home  Mission  Society  in  the  West, 
where  so  many  of  their  kindred  had  removed,  served 
in  some  measure  to  divert  attention  from  the  work 
of  the  home  field. 

In  this  time  of  financial  difficulty,  the  question  of 
ways  and  means  was  prominent  before  each  anniver- 
sary meeting,  and  the  employment  of  agents  to  visit 
the  churches  and  solicit  contributions  much  discussed. 

Many  of  the  methods  which  come  before  mission- 
ary societies  at  anniversaries  at  the  present  time  were 
proposed  and  considered;  and  as  early  as  1836  we 


72  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

find  what  is  now  known  as  the  "wheel  plan,"  of 
setting  apart  the  benevolence  of  certain  months  to 
some  specific  object,  recommended  to  the  churches 
for  adoption.  Agents  were  employed  for  brief  terms, 
but  men  soon  tired  in  the  service,  and  the  increased 
receipts  as  a  result  of  such  appeals  seemed  hardly 
sufficient  to  warrant  the  continuance  of  effort. 

During  this  period  churches,  to  a  much  greater 
extent,  contributed  money  to  constitute  a  pastor,  or 
some  member,  a  life  member.  Perhaps  this  method 
may  have  been  more  general  because  the  membership 
of  the  body  was  at  this  time  so  largely  made  up  of 
delegates  appointed  by  the  several  Associations,  but 
whatever  the  motive,  the  result  of  increasing  the  Ufe- 
membership  has  always  been  good,  as  it  tends  to 
multiply  the  number  of  individuals  who  have  special 
interest  in  the  work. 

Considerable  income  was  derived  from  the  Chris- 
tian Watchman  through  an  arrangement  with  the 
publisher,  Mr.  William  Nichols,  supposed  to  be  of 
mutual  advantage.  The  Convention,  through  its 
missionaries  and  pastors,  endeavored  to  promote  the 
circulation  of  the  paper,  and  a  percentage  of  the 
profits  was  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  Convention. 
The  receipts  from  this  source  amounted  to  about 
;^300  a  year  for  several  years. 

In  the  annual  report  for  1837  mention  was  made 
of  the  eminent  success  which  had  attended  the  labors 


William  H.  Shailer,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  73 

of  a.  worthy  pastor,  who  had  succeeded  in  introducing 
the  paper  into  every  family  in  his  congregation. 

For  a  few  years  after  the  reorganization,  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  funds  received  came  from  the 
Baptist  Evangelical  Benevolent  Society  in  the  western 
part  of  Massachusetts,  designated  to  be  expended 
within  the  limits  of  the  Westfield  Association. 

This  Society  deserves  more  extended  mention. 
At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Westfield  Associ- 
ation, held  at  Becket,  September  3d  and  4th,  1823, 
a  committee,  of  which  Rev'ds  Asa  Todd  and 
Thomas  Rand  were  members,  offered  a  report : 
"  That  it  is  their  opinion  that  the  moral  state  of  the 
surrounding  region,  the  tone  of  Christian  feeling  in 
the  churches,  and  the  spirit  of  the  times,  urge  the 
expediency  of  forming,  without  loss  of  time,  a  society 
which  can  receive  and  appropriate  the  avails  of  their 
Christian  liberality ;  and  that  it  is  expedient  to  ap- 
point a  personal  meeting,  and  to  recommend  to  each 
of  the  churches  of  this  Association  to  send  delegates, 
for  the  purpose  of  organizing  such  a  society  and  con- 
sulting on  the  course  which  shall  tend  most  to  its 
future  prosperity."  This  report  was  adopted,  and  the 
Society  was  duly  organized  at  a  special  meeting  held 
in  November  of  the  same  year,  with  the  Rev.  David 
Wright,  of  Westfield,  Secretary,  and  Mr.  Norman 
Warriner,  of  Agawam,  Treasurer. 

The  receipts  from  the  churches  from  year  to  year 


74  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

were  widely  distributed,  but  the  more  considerable 
portion  was  used  through  the  channel  of  the  Con- 
vention. An  annual  missionary  meeting  was  held 
in  connection  with  the  Association.  The  Society 
continued  until   1852, 

The  following  resolution,  proposed  by  Rev.  Jona- 
than Loring,  and  adopted  by  the  annual  meeting  in 
1837,  seems  worthy  of  note,  revealing  as  it  does  the 
high  ideal  of  the  fathers  whose  memory  and  deeds 
we  recall. 


"  Resolved^  That  from  the  obligations  of  the  Christian  to 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  peculiar  circumstances  of  our 
denomination,  especially  in  the  valley  of  the  Mississippi ;  the 
efforts  now  making  by  foreign  influence  to  subvert  our  most 
sacred  principles,  and  control  our  future  destinies,  and  the 
voice  of  Divine  Providence  from  the  four  quarters  of  the 
globe  for  a  more  enlarged  system  of  benevolent  effort,  our 
whole  denomination  in  North  America,  are  held  by  the  most 
sacred  bonds  to  desire  most  ardently,  to  pray  most  devoutly 
and  constantly,  to  labor  unremittingly,  and  to  contribute  bounti- 
fully for  Home  Missions,  till  every  church  is  provided  with 
a  pastor,  every  family  brought  under  religious  influence,  every 
child  sufficiently  taught  in  the  Word  of  God  ;  every  town, 
village,  and  settiement  provided  with  religious  ministrations ; 
every  ordinance  of  the  gospel  restored  to  apostolic  purity, 
every  private  and  public  vice  eradicated,  and  every  sinner 
converted." 


The  report  of  the  Board  for  the  year   1837  was 
very  methodically  arranged  under  ten  sub-heads  : 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  75 

1.  Churches  visited.  6.  Difficulties  to  encounter. 

2.  Destitute  churches  sup-        7.  Associations. 

plied.  8,  Agencies. 

3.  Missionaries  employed.  9.  Applications   and   appropri- 

4.  Teachers  directed  to  the  ations. 

West.  ID,  Closing  remarks. 

5.  American  Baptist  Home 

Mission  Society. 

Forty-one  churches  received  assistance  during  the 
year,  and  among  the  destitute  places  supplied,  Sud- 
bury, Neponset,  and  Long  Plain  were  mentioned. 

Rev.  David  Wright,  missionary  in  the  Westfield 
Association,  reported  raising  ^2,800  for  the  Central 
Baptist  Church  in  Westfield  to  aid  it  in  building,  and 
apologizes  for  giving  so  large  a  portion  of  his  time  to 
this  one  church,  saying,  "  I  trust  labor  there  will  not 
ultimately  be  in  vain,  and  therefore  have  felt  justified 
in  spending  much  time  with  them."  He  had  also 
found  time  to  preach  180  times.  Among  the  diffi- 
culties to  encounter,  four  find  explicit  mention : 
First,  "The  exceeding  ardent  desires  manifested  by 
many  to  get  immediately  rich."  Second,  "The  un- 
paralleled pecuniary  embarrassments  of  the  times." 
Third,  "The  want  of  systematic  and  persevering 
efforts  in  carrying  forward  the  benevolent  enterprises 
of  the  day."  And  fourth,  "The  frequent  removal  of 
pastors."  Mention  was  also  made  of  a  few  "anti- 
effort"  churches  which  disparaged  Sabbath  schools 
and  mission  societies. 


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During  the  remainder  of  the  decade  1830-40  there 
was  a  continuance  of  the  financial  crisis,  and  the 
work  was  carried  on  with  difficulty  and  much  cur- 
tailment, but,  notwithstanding,  a  considerable  debt 
was  incurred.  A  church  was  organized  this  year  at 
Woodville,  Hon,  Isaac  Davis,  of  Worcester,  suc- 
ceeded Levi  Farwell,  of  Cambridge,  as  President,  in 
1838. 

In  1839  the  continuance  of  unfavorable  financial 
conditions  culminated  at  the  annual  meeting  in  the 
offering  of  a  resolution  looking  to  such  modifications 
of  the  duties  of  the  Secretary  as  would  allow  of  their 
performance  by  a  pastor  whose  compensation  should 
be  nominal.  This  proposition  was  referred  to  the 
Board,  and  resulted  in  the  retirement  of  Secretary 
Kimball,  who  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Charles  Train, 
of  Framingham,  the  first  of  a  line  of  unpaid  servants 
who,  after  the  reorganization,  served  the  Society  with 
great  fidelity  and  ability,  only  accepting  remuneration 
to  meet  their  expenses  necessarily  incurred.  The  first 
meeting  of  the  decade  1840-50  was  one  of  great  de- 
spondency. Owing  to  small  receipts  and  the  former 
use  by  some  contributions  designated  for  the  Home 
Mission  Society  necessitating  reimbursement,  only 
1^230  was  appropriated  to  churches  for  the  entire 
year,  this  amount  being  divided  between  Spencer, 
Rome,  Townsend,  East  Randolph,  Amherst,  South- 
boro,  Woodville,  and  Buckland.      The  total  receipts 


Daniel  C.  Eddy,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  jy 

for  the  year  amounted  to  $2,121.  Under  such  de- 
pressing conditions,  only  relieved  by  the  fact  that  all 
outstanding  obligations  had  been  discharged,  a  cir- 
cular was  addressed  to  the  churches  asking  increased 
contributions.  The  response  was  not  very  hearty, 
and  a  committee  on  the  future  pohcy  of  the  Conven- 
tion reported,  only  suggesting  the  employment  of  an 
additional  missionary,  without  indicating  any  method 
by  which  his  support  could  be  provided. 


CHAPTER   X. 

In  1 84 1  the  Board  was  able  to  distribute  among 
the  churches  only  ^550.  A  considerable  portion 
of  this  amount  was  expended  in  aid  of  the  First 
Church,  Pittsfield,  and  the  churches  at  Northampton, 
Medway,  and  Baldwin sville.  A  paragraph  from  the 
annual  report  may  sound  as  familiar  as  a  thrice- 
told  tale: 

"  The  Board  of  the  Convention !  what  have  they  done  the 
past  year  ?  They  have  met  regularly  each  quarter,  listened  to 
appeals  most  thrilling,  moving  appeals  from  feeble  and  desti- 
tute churches  within  the  limits  of  the  Commonwealth ;  they 
have  then  coolly,  anxiously  deliberated  and  inquired  what  was 
the  state  of  the  treasury ;  and  they  have  divided  the  scanty 
sum  at  their  disposal  among  these  churches,  somewhat  in  the 
manner  that  the  parent  would  divide  his  only  loaf  among  his 
crying,  starving  children." 

This  year  the  Board  did  one  great,  grand  deed  that 
resulted  in  untold  benefit,  in  securing  for  a  missionary 
the  Rev,  Hervey  Fittz,  whose  whole  subsequent  life 
was  given  to  most  faithful  and  efficient  itinerant 
service  among  the  churches  of  the  State.      Of  the 

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79 


extent  of  his  useful  labors,  and  the  results  accom- 
plished through  his  long  and  faithful  ministry,  the 
half  has  never  been  told. 

In  1844  Hon.  Levi  Farwell,  who  had  had  two 
periods  of  service  as  President,  died,  and  of  him  it 
was  said,  "  His  history  has  been  written  in  acts  of 
benevolence,  known  and  read  of  all  men."  Asa  Wil- 
bur, the  beloved  deacon,  was  elected  his  successor. 

This  year  (1844)  there  was  a  manifest  change 
in  tone.  The  annual  report  speaks  of  largely 
increased  receipts,  in  part,  however,  due  to  a  legacy, 
and  of  much  more  accomplished  than  in  years  imme- 
diately preceding.  The  churches  at  Medford,  Acton, 
and  East  Boston  appear  upon  the  list  of  those  receiv- 
ing aid. 

In  1845  the  Board  recommended  the  plan  of 
apportioning  to  the  churches  the  amount  asked  from 
each  for  the  year,  which  was  adopted  and  has  been 
to  a  considerable  extent  continued  to  the  present 
time  —  a  plan  which  has  been  ignored  by  some 
churches,  but  on  the  whole  has  proved  the  most 
successful  of  the  various  methods  which  have  been 
tried. 

The  annual  report  for  1846  tells  of  sixty-two 
churches  needing  aid  to  the  amount  of  1^4,000,  with 
nine  localities  in  which  new  churches  ought  to  be 
organized.  An  able  report  upon  finances  fur- 
nished  this  terse  summary  of  important   principles 


8o  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

to  be  applied  to  the  benevolent  contributions  of  the 
churches : 

"Giving  should  be  (i)  Systematic;  (2)  Personal;  (3)  Fre- 
quent ;  (4) '  As  God  hath  prospered.'  "  This  was  designated  as 
the  Apostolic  plan. 

The  chairman  of  the  committee,  and  evidently 
the  writer  of  this  notable  report,  was  Rev.  William 
Hague.  In  a  retrospect,  the  annual  report  recalls 
to  mind  the  more  than  thirty  years'  history  preced- 
ing the  one  of  the  Home  Mission  Society,  and  adds, 
"  We  shall  be  claiming  nothing  which  is  not  justly 
due  in  saying  that  the  plan  of  that  noble  institution 
was  conceived  and  matured  chiefly  by  men  who  had 
been  connected  with  the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Mis- 
sionary Society." 

This  year  the  annual  meeting  was  changed  from 
May  to  October,  and  what  was  originally  regarded 
as  an  experiment,  afterward  became  the  settled 
practice. 

As  a  nucleus  of  a  permanent  fund,  the  Society  this 
year  set  aside  ^3,000  paid  on  a  legacy  made  to  the 
original  organization  in  18 14.  This  money  came 
from  the  estate  of  Thomas  Baxter,  of  Bridgewater. 
That  it  was  over  thirty  years  in  reaching  the  treasury 
shows  that  legal  proceedings  in  former  times  were  not 
always  expeditious. 

Among  the  successful  applicants  for  aid  appear 


Joseph  C.  Foster,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  8  I 

the  churches  at  Westminster  and  Charlestown 
Neck. 

Among  the  curiosities  of  this  period  we  find  an 
amendment  to  the  Constitution  allowing  the  election, 
in  addition  to  the  President,  of  a  moderator  for  the 
annual  meeting. 

In  1847  the  Baptist  ministers  of  Massachusetts 
united  over  their  own  signatures  in  a  declaration  and 
protest  upon  the  question  of  slavery.  (See  Appen- 
dix D,  page  231.)  The  original  document  in  the  hand- 
writing of  Baron  Stow,  which  has  been  preserved, 
contains  the  signature  of  116  ministers,  but  one  of 
whom  is  now  living.  This  interesting  paper  will 
be  found  in  the  Appendix,  and  no  person  reading  it 
will  be  left  in  doubt  with  reference  to  the  attitude 
of  Massachusetts  Baptist  ministers  at  that  time  upon 
a  question  which  was  destined  in  a  few  years  to  con- 
vulse the  nation. 

The  report  of  1849  contains  the  first  allusion  to 
a  decrease  in  population  in  some  of  the  towns  —  the 
beginning  of  that  great  exodus  to  the  West,  and 
the  gravitation  to  great  manufacturing  centres,  which 
has  almost  depopulated  many  towns,  and  for  a  decade 
made  the  term  "  Convention  "and  "  feeble  churches  " 
almost  synonymous.  The  mention  of  this  drift  in 
population  occurs  in  a  threefold  classification  of  aided 
churches  as  those  (i)  weak  from  a  decrease  in  popu- 
lation ;  (2)  weak  from  overshadowing  influences ;  (3) 


82  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

weak  because  recently  organized  in  manufacturing 
places,  but  full  of  promise. 

The  Committee  on  Sunday  Schools  and  Publica- 
tions reported  a  list  of  the  Baptist  publications  with 
the  circulation  in  the  State  and  elsewhere.  The  cir- 
culation was  as  follows  :  Missionary  Magazine,  1,240  ; 
Christian  Reviezv,  171  ;  Sunday  School  Treasury, 
1,200;  Macedonian,  4,162;  Reaper,  7,000;  Watch- 
man and  Reflector,  6,732. 

A  legacy  by  Mrs.  Prudence  Far  well,  of  Cambridge, 
provided  that  the  Missionary  Union  pay  $400  annu- 
ally in  perpetuity  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Convention. 
With  the  consent  of  all  parties  the  Convention  ac- 
cepted, instead,  ^6,666  as  payment  in  full. 

An  appropriation  of  ^100  to  Leominster  would 
seem  to  have  been  made  prior  to  the  organization  of 
the  church. 

In  1846  the  Home  Mission  Society  dissolved  its 
connection  with  the  Convention,  and  determined  to 
rely  in  the  future  wholly  upon  its  own  agencies. 

The  report  for  1849  chronicles  the  death  of  Rev. 
Charles  Train  in  these  words : 


"  Years  before  a  majority  of  this  body  had  entered  upon  the 
scenes  of  active  life,  his  name  was  enrolled  among  the  friends 
and  officers  of  the  Convention  and  of  the  Missionary  Society, 
of  which  it  is  the  legal  representative.  In  one  of  the  darkest 
periods  of  its  history,  our  departed  brother  was  appointed 
Secretary  of  this  body,  and  by  his  wisdom  and  efficiency  lost 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH  83 

confidence  was  to  a  considerable  extent  restored  to  the  Conven- 
tion, and  during  his  time  of  service  some  of  those  measures 
were  taken  and  plans  adopted  which  have  given  efficiency  to 
the  Convention  in  later  years." 

The  receipts  from  the  churches  in  1850  were 
small,  amounting  to  only  ;^  1,600,  and  aided  churches 
only  received  ^1,259.  Among  those  who  shared  in 
the  distribution  was  one  long  since  become  a  power 
and  one  of  the  most  generous  contributors  of  recent 
years,  —  the  Second  Church  in  Holyoke.  The  Con- 
vention has  made  few  better  investments  than  in  this 
noble  church.  Natick,  Gardner,  and  Winchendon 
were  also  on  the  list  at  this  time. 

The  annual  meeting  of  185 1,  held  in  Fall  River, 
was  characterized  by  a  progressive  spirit,  and  several 
of  its  recommendations  have  continued  in  force  to  the 
present  time.  With  this  date  began  the  printing  of 
the  list  of  ordained  ministers,  alphabetically  arranged 
and  classified  as  to  their  present  employment,  and 
the  page  devoted  to  a  summary  of  the  Associations 
was  revised,  with  added  columns.  In  1 851,  for  the 
only  time  in  the  Convention's  history,  the  annual 
sermon,  by  H.  T.  Love,  pastor  at  North  Adams,  was 
printed  in  full  with  the  minutes.  It  was  a  most  re- 
markable sermon,  containing  many  statistics  whose 
compilation  must  have  cost  the  preacher  much  labor, 
and  pervaded  by  a  missionary  spirit  based  upon 
the  highest  motives.     The  year  immediately  preced- 


84  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

ing  had  been  a  period  of  religious  declension  through- 
out New  England,  following  the  extraordinary  activity 
and  large  ingatherings  of  the  period  1840-43,  when 
so  many  looked  for  the  immediate  return  of  the  Lord 
Jesus,  and  the  sermon  was  a  trumpet-call  to  renewed 
activity  and  consecration.  The  lost  condition  and 
future  prospects  of  the  impenitent  were  presented 
with  startUng  imagery,  and  the  unutterable  responsi- 
bility of  the  Church  of  Christ  exhibited  in  the  plainest 
terms.  In  a  foot-note,  the  author  credits  the  Berk- 
shire and  the  Boston  Associations  with  being  excep- 
tions from  the  rule  of  decrease  in  membership,  and 
notes  that  the  increase  of  the  former  for  a  decade 
had  been  144  per  cent.,  while  the  churches  of  the 
latter  had  increased  for  the  same  period  three  thou- 
sand in  aggregate  membership. 

The  expense  incurred  in  publishing  this  sermon 
caused  dissatisfaction  and  resulted  soon  afterward  in 
the  passage  of  a  resolution  prohibiting  the  printing  of 
sermons  at  the  Society's  expense.  At  the  same 
meeting,  the  President  of  the  Convention,  A.  J. 
Bellows,  M.  D.,  contributed  a  valuable  table  of  statis- 
tics showing  the  increase  in  population  and  in  the 
membership  of  evangelical  churches  for  the  last 
twenty  years. 

At  the  date  of  compilation,  one  person  to  eight 
and  one-half  in  the  State  was  a  member  of  a  Baptist, 
Congregationalist,  or  Methodist   church.     The  gain 


George  W.  Bos  worth,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  85 

in  population  had  been  62  per  cent.  ;  in  church-mem- 
bership in  the  denomination,  ^6  per  cent.  In  Boston 
the  gain  in  population  had  been  124  per  cent.,  and  in 
church-membership  as  above,  163  per  cent. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

The  semi-centennial  of  the  Society  in  1852,  held 
with  the  church  in  Framingham,  was  not  observed  by 
special  services,  but  the  report  of  the  Board  from  the 
pen  of  Rev.  William  H.  Shailer  was  largely  devoted  to 
a  review  of  the  past  history  of  the  Convention.  The 
report  closes  tenderly  with  the  following  reflections 
upon  the  brevity  of  human  life  and  service : 

"  Fifty  years  hence,  probably  not  one  of  us  on  whom  the 
responsibilities  of  sustaining  this  Association  now  rest  will  be 
living.  All,  all  will  have  passed  on  to  that  other  state  of  exist- 
ence. But  it  is  a  pleasing  thought  that  of  the  faithful,  the 
sower  and  the  reaper  shall  rejoice  together  !  Here  one  generation 
succeeds  another,  and  we  labor  in  places  and  offices  made  vacant 
by  others,  some  of  whom  we  have  only  known  in  name,  and  the 
records  which  have  been  left  of  their  deeds  and  their  virtues ; 
and  this  is  the  condition  on  which  we  have  our  earthly  existence, 
our  works  are  to  have  a  termination,  our  places  are  to  be  left 
desolate ;  earth  has  no  rest  for  us,  no  abiding-place ;  for  a  city 
in  which  they  may  continue  and  repose,  the  faithful  must  look 
beyond  this  world.  In  the  beautiful  language  of  another, 
'  There  is  only  one  dwelling-place  of  the  good  which  shall  never 
be  desolate ;  only  the  shade  of  the  tree  of  life  shall  be  always 
refreshing ;  only  the  stream  from  the  fountain  of  life  shall  flow 
on  without  end.'  Let  us  seek  so  to  live  and  act  our  part  on  the 
stage  of  life,  that  we  may  be  gathered  in  that  place,  repose 

86 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  8/ 

beneath  the  shade  of  that  tree,  and  drink  of  the  stream  from 
that  fountain." 

That  no  more  special  attention  was  given  to  so 
notable  an  anniversary  seems  strange  in  the  light  of 
present  tendencies.  The  records  fail  to  show  that 
other  than  in  the  annual  report  any  allusion  was 
made  to  the  completion  of  a  half-century  of  service. 
Of  those  present  at  this  meeting,  there  still  remain 
among  us  Reverends  C.  M.  Bowers,  J.  M.  Rockwood, 
Jonathan  Tilson,  D.  B.  Ford,  and  J.  H.  Tilton,  with 
Rev.  William  Howe,  who  does  not  seem  to  have  been 
present  at  the  anniversary  meeting. 

Both  the  President  and  the  Secretary  retired  at 
this  meeting,  and  were  succeeded  respectively  by  Rev. 
Daniel  Sanderson  and  Rev.  George  W.  Bosworth. 

The  only  notable  action  taken  at  this  meeting  was 
an  endorsement  of  the  then  new  Maine  Liquor  Law, 
and  a  vote  to  curtail  the  length  of  the  reports  from 
each  Association  to  what  could  be  read  in  six  minutes. 
A  comparison  of  the  receipts  for  distinctively  State 
work  in  185 1  with  those  of  1841  show  an  increase 
from  $1,221  to  $3,827. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  1853,  complaint  was 
made  that  the  missionaries  of  the  Convention  had 
labored  with  churches  not  needing  such  assistance, 
and  that  they  had  unduly  interfered  with  the  supply- 
ing of  the  churches.  A  committee  of  inquiry  was 
appointed,  who  were  unable  to  find  facts  substantiat- 


88  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

ing  the  charges  preferred,  and  recommended  that  any 
party  aggrieved  present  his  grievance  to  the  Board. 

The  death  of  Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D.,  for  more  than 
forty  years  pastor  of  the  Charles  Street  Church  in 
Boston,  Secretary  under  the  old  organization  of  the 
Society  from  1813  to  1829,  gave  occasion  for  the 
remark  that  "This  Society  has  probably  been  more 
indebted  to  the  personal  work  of  Doctor  Sharp  than 
any  other  man.  The  annual  reports  for  the  years  of 
his  service  —  years  so  eventful  in  the  history  of  the 
denomination  —  were  prepared  by  his  pen,  and  are 
replete  with  wisdom  and  historic  matter." 

At  a  subsequent  meeting,  arrangements  were  made 
for  the  publication  of  a  suitable  memoir  of  this 
venerable  man. 

In  1857  it  was  proposed  that  an  inquiry  be  made 
as  to  the  feasibility  of  some  consolidation  of  benevo- 
lent societies.  The  annual  report  of  this  year 
alludes  to  a  financial  crisis,  seriously  affecting  benevo- 
lent contributions. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  1859,  held  in  Spring- 
field, the  President,  George  B.  Ide,  D.  D.,  introduced 
a  colored  woman  who  made  a  plea  for  the  last  hun- 
dred of  ^1,000  needed  to  purchase  her  sister's 
freedom,  and  the  required  amount  was  at  once 
contributed. 

In  i860  a  new  officer  was  appointed  in  the  person 
of  Rev.  Kendall  Brooks,  who  was  elected  Statistical 


Joseph  Ricker,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  89 

Secretary,  and  the  sum  of  ^25  placed  at  his  disposal 
for  expenses  of  correspondence. 

During  the  ten  years  1850-60,  thirty-three  new 
churches  were  organized,  twenty-two  of  which  were 
for  a  time  beneficiaries  of  the  Society.  During  the 
same  period,  the  names  of  ten  churches  disappeared 
from  the  list.  They  were  for  the  most  part  churches 
in  towns  being  rapidly  depopulated,  from  which  the 
youth  went  forth  to  the  larger  possibilities  of  the 
city  and  Western  life. 

Probably  the  extinction  of  most  of  these  churches 
was  an  inevitable  result  of  the  changed  conditions  in 
rural  Massachusetts,  but  subsequent  changes  have 
shown  that  assistance  given  a  little  longer  might 
have  resulted  in  ultimate  recovery  and  the  perpetua- 
tion of  denominational  interests  in  what  are  now  im- 
portant centres,  where,  for  lack  of  a  Baptist  church, 
much  loss  of  members  results,  and  the  children 
in  Baptist  families  become  associated  with  other 
churches,  with  whose  Sabbath  schools  and  social 
life  they  have  become  identified.  There  are  such 
towns  at  present  in  which  there  are  many  Baptists 
residing,  very  few  of  whose  children,  if  converted, 
will  be  found  adhering  to  the  faith  of  their  fathers. 

Over  the  meeting  held  with  the  Harvard  Street 
Church,  Boston,  Oct.  30,  1861,  the  shadow  of  the 
Civil  War  hung  deeply,  and  the  reports  in  general 
contained  allusions  to  the  absence  in  the  army  of 


90 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH 


pastors  and  members,  and  the  unspeakable  solicitude 
for  the  living  at  the  front,  and  of  sorrow  for  those 
who  had  already  lain  down  their  lives. 

Among  the  committees  appointed  for  this  year 
was  one  of  the  state  of  the  country.  Their  report, 
which  was  replete  with  Christian  patriotism,  was 
adopted,  and  the  copy  transmitted  to  the  State  De- 
partment at  Washington.     It  reads  as  follows: 

"  This  Convention  of  the  Baptist  churches  of  Massachusetts, 
convened  in  a  time  of  formidable  revolt  and  civil  war,  deems 
it  fitting  to  put  on  record  its  solemn  judgment  in  reference  to 
the  principles  involved  in  the  pending  strife,  and  the  duty  of 
Christian  citizens  toward  an  imperilled  government. 

"  We  hold  that  government  is  the  first  necessity  of  social 
beings,  and  hence  must  be  a  divine  ordinance,  and  not  a 
human  device ;  that  men  are  under  it,  not  as  having  joined  it, 
but  as  being  bound  up  in  an  original  law  of  social  life  which 
acts  with  equal  force  on  all  the  scattered  particles  of  human- 
ity ;  in  short,  that  God  is  the  founder  of  the  civil  state  and  the 
sole  Fountain  of  civil  power ;  according  to  the  words  of  the 
apostle,  '  For  there  is  no  power  but  of  God ;  the  powers  that 
be  are  ordained  of  God.' 

"  We  also  hold  that,  as  government  is  a  divine  ordinance,  it 
is  to  be  exercised  not  as  man  pleases,  but  as  God  ordains, 
that  is  to  say,  for  the  great  ends  of  individual  and  social  well- 
being,  in  the  appointed  ways  of  Christian  well  doing;  and 
that,  in  the  true  sphere  of  its  ordination,  it  is  entitled  to  the 
reverence  and  obedience  of  all  who  share  its  protection  or  live 
under  its  sway.  Holding  these  views  to  be  grounded  alike  in 
reason  and  in  Scripture,  Therefore 

"  Resolved^  That  we  regard  the  existing  revolt  against  our 
National  Government,  not  only  as  a  breach  of  human  law,  but 


Deacon  George  W.  Chipman. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  9 1 

as  wanton  rebellion  against  the  authority  of  God ;  and  whether 
we  consider  the  Sovereignty  which  it  spurns,  or  the  iniquity 
which  it  seeks  to  enthrone,  it  must  be  contemplated  with 
execration  and  loathing  by  all  unprejudiced  and  God-fearing 
men. 

"  Resolved,  That  inasmuch  as  this  unrighteous  war  against 
a  good  and  beneficent  government  is  waged  avowedly  in  the 
interest  of  African  Slavery,  which  has  been  authoritatively  set 
forth  as  the  corner-stone  of  the  so-called  Southern  Confeder- 
acy, the  fact  ought  to  open  the  eyes  of  all  loyal  men  as  to  the 
character  and  tendencies  of  that  system  of  abominations,  and 
to  lead  the  public  authorities  to  avail  themselves  of  every 
measure  justified  by  the  spirit  of  the  Constitution,  and  de- 
manded by  the  political  or  military  exigencies  of  the  time,  for 
its  eradication  from  the  land. 

"  Resolved,  That  it  is  the  duty  of  our  people,  in  this  solemn 
crisis  which  has  come  upon  us,  to  rally  as  one  man  for  the 
support  of  our  cherished  institutions  of  government,  and  that 
it  behooves  all,  without  respect  to  sect  or  party,  to  strengthen 
the  hands  of  the  National  Administration  by  a  prompt  response 
to  all  its  legitimate  behests,  by  a  patient  forbearance  toward 
all  alleged  excesses  or  its  seeming  shortcomings,  and  by  every 
form  of  material  and  moral  support. 

"  Resolved,  That  we  recognize  in  the  present  mournful  state 
of  our  country  the  righteous  visitation  of  a  jealous  God ;  and 
that  we  can  look  for  salvation  only  by  turning  away  from  our 
vain  boastings,  by  repairing  the  wrongs  which  we  have  prac- 
tised against  the  weak,  by  renouncing  the  greed  of  our  avarice, 
and  by  dealing  justly,  loving  mercy,  and  walking  humbly  with 
our  God." 


Secretary  Joseph  Ricker,  who  had  served  since 
1858,  notes  as  a  matter  of  wonder  that  the  receipts 
from  the  churches  had  not  been  materially  diminished 


92  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

by  the  political  disturbances,  and  the  diversion  of 
interest.  What  has  been  said  of  this  year  applies 
with  equal  force  to  the  succeeding  years  of  the  con- 
tinuance of  the  great  rebellion. 

In  1863  William  D.  Ticknor,  after  a  period  of 
service  extending  over  twenty-eight  years,  retired 
from  the  position  of  Treasurer,  which  he  had  so  ably 
filled,  and  was  succeeded  by  George  W.  Chipman. 
The  thanks  of  the  Convention  were  tendered  the 
retiring  Treasurer  for  the  very  valuable  and  satisfac- 
tory services  he  had  long  rendered  as  the  Treasurer 
of  this  body.  He  died  a  few  months  afterward  while 
away  on  a  business  trip.  Unusual  mortality  prevailed 
among  the  members  of  the  Board  during  this  year, 
no  less  than  six  deaths  occurring. 

The  first  beginnings  of  the  controversy  concerning 
the  education  of  the  freedmen  were  made  a  matter  of 
consideration  by  the  annual  meeting  in  1863,  and 
the  action  of  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission 
Society  in  seeking  to  organize  a  distinct  department 
for  the  work  of  instructing,  elevating,  and  Christian- 
izing this  long  oppressed  and  neglected  people  was 
heartily  approved.  It  is  noted  that  Dr.  Baron  Stow, 
who  had  presided  over  the  Convention  for  the  last 
four  years  with  distinguished  ability,  and  who  had 
declined  reelection,  resigned  the  chair  to  his  succes- 
sor, S.  B.  Swaim,  D.  D. 

At  the  annual  meeting  for  1865,  held  in  Taunton, 


C.   AI.   Bowers,   D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  93 

Rev.  Joseph  Ricker  declined  reelection  as  Secretary 
and  was  succeeded  by  one  who  is  still  a  member  of 
the  Board,  outranking  all  others  in  consecutive  ser- 
vice, Charles  M.  Bowers,  D.  D.,  of  Clinton.  Large 
mortality  also  finds  record  in  the  report  for  this  year, 
including  in  the  list  of  taken,  the  names  of  S.  B. 
Swaim,  D.  D.,  President  of  the  Society,  and  Francis 
Wayland,  LL.  D.,  who  was  Secretary  of  the  Society 
for  the  years  1824-25. 

The  return  of  peace  to  the  land  was  joyfully 
welcomed  and  gratefully  acknowledged,  and  the  next 
year,  1866,  the  Committee  on  the  State  of  the  Coun- 
try gave  strong  expression  of  opposition  to  any  policy 
of  reconstruction  which  should  ignore  the  criminality 
of  the  late  rebellion.  A  new  voice  raised  in  the  dis- 
cussions of  the  annual  meeting,  was  that  of  one  who 
afterward  became  one  of  the  most  earnest  advocates 
of  an  aggressive  policy  in  the  work  of  State  evangel- 
ization, Albert  K.  Potter,  D.  D.,  then  of  Springfield. 

C.  M.  Bowers,  D.  D.,  after  a  service  of  a  single 
year,  resigned  as  Secretary  to  allow  the  election  to  the 
office  of  a  man  to  give  his  whole  time  to  the  raising 
of  funds  for  the  Convention,  to  the  reorganization  of 
its  agencies,  and  the  general  oversight  of  its  interests. 
This  change  occurring  during  the  interim  between 
annual  meetings.  Rev.  B.  F.  Bronson  was  appointed 
Secretary  by  the  Board,  and  this  action  was  con- 
firmed by  his  reelection  at  the  next  annual  meeting. 


94  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

This  change  marked  a  return  to  the  policy  which 
prevailed  after  reorganization. 

With  peace,  there  seems  to  have  come  increased 
spiritual  prosperity  ;  not  for  many  years  had  there 
been  so  large  ingathering  to  the  churches,  and  the 
roll  of  membership  was  enlarged  in  one  year  to  the 
extent  of  over  two  thousand  members. 

After  a  service  of  less  than,  two  years.  Secretary 
Bronson  resigned,  and  his  predecessor,  C.  M.  Bowers, 
D.  D.,  also  became  his  successor,  and,  in  the  annual 
report  for  that  year,  recalled  some  items  of  great 
interest  from  the  past  history  of  the  Convention, 
such  as  the  fact  that  Dr.  Francis  Wayland,  Rev, 
John  M.  Peck,  Professors  Ira  Chase  and  Solomon 
Peck,  and  Dr.  Jonathan  Going  had  been  salaried 
missionaries  in  the  employ  of  the  Society. 

In  1868  circumstances  precipitated  throughout  the 
denomination  a  spirited  discussion  of  the  communion 
question,  and  at  the  annual  meeting  of  that  year  the 
following  preamble  and  resolution,  presented  by  Rev. 
William  Lamson,  were  adopted  : 

"  Whereas  the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Convention  has  from 
its  origin  acknowledged  the  Scriptures  to  be  the  supreme 
authority  for  Christians  in  all  matters  of  faith  and  practice, 
Therefore, 

"  Resolved,  That  this  Convention,  in  common  with  our  de- 
nomination, recognize  the  order  of  baptism  before  the  Lord's 
Supper  as  a  divine  authority,  it  having  been  observed  by  the 
Apostolic    and    the    New   Testament   Church ;    and   for   any 


Hon.  Chester  W.  Kingsley. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  95 

inversion   of  this  order  we   have    no  precept  or  example  or 
allusion  in  the  Word  of  God." 

The  two  churches  contributing  the  largest  amount 
into  the  treasury  of  the  Convention  for  the  year 
1869  were  First,  Springfield,  which  contributed  $6^-^), 
and  Second,  Holyoke,  ^400,  the  gross  receipts  for 
the  year  amounting  to  $9,238.  The  long  extended 
litigation  to  secure  what  is  known  as  the  Bumstead 
Estate  this  year  reached  a  successful  conclusion, 
which  was  the  occasion  of  much  rejoicing ;  and  had 
the  future  appreciation  in  value  of  that  property  been 
anticipated,  a  still  higher  note  of  joy  might  have 
been  struck. 

In  1870,  the  question  of  the  appointment  of  a 
Financial  Secretary  received  considerable  attention, 
but  a  resolution  authorizing  such  appointment  was 
laid  upon  the  table.  Aid  was  rendered  during  1869 
to  sixty-one  churches,  a  much  larger  number  than 
ever  before.  The  report  of  the  Board  contains  the 
melancholy  announcement  that  the  receipts  from 
churches  and  individuals  had  fallen  to  less  than 
;^5,ooo  for  the  year,  and  that  over  two-thirds  of  the 
churches  of  one  of  the  largest  Associations  had  made 
no  contribution  whatever ;  the  aggregate  from  all 
the  churches  of  the  State  being  less  than  the  salary 
paid  their  pastor  by  several  churches.  Expenditures 
made  necessary  in  the  improvement  of  the  Bumstead 
Estate,  so  that  it  could  become  a  producer  of  income, 


96  HISTORICAL    SKETCH 

tended  to  diminish  further  the  amount  available  for 
aiding  churches. 

During  the  decade  closing  with  the  year  1870, 
eighteen  new  churches  were  organized,  Lawrence, 
Second  ;  Lynn,  Third  ;  East  Gloucester  ;  Union  Tem- 
ple, Boston ;  State  Street,  Springfield ;  Broadway, 
Cambridge  ;  West  Newton,  First ;  Groveland  ;  West 
Amesbury  ;  Pondville ;  Marlboro  ;  Quincy  Point ; 
North  Bellingham  ;  Franklin  ;  Brookville  ;  Stoneham  ; 
Orange  ;  and  Ruggles  Street,  Boston.  Quincy  Point 
and  Groveland  failed  to  obtain  a  permanent  foothold. 
Could  the  present  extensive  ship-building  at  Quincy 
Point,  with  the  great  increase  of  population,  have 
been  foreseen,  and  the  property  retained,  it  would 
now  afford  facilities  for  labor  in  an  important 
field  without  injury  to  the  Calvary  or  West  Quincy 
churches.  The  number  of  churches  dropped  from 
the  list  during  this  period  was  twenty,  showing  a 
decrease  of  two  in  ten  years,  but  there  was  a  net 
increase  of  about  five  thousand  in  membership. 


William  A.  Munroe,  Esq. 


CHAPTER  XII. 

In  the  year  1870,  the  American  Baptist  Home 
Mission  Society  began  work  in  the  State  among  the 
Canadian  French.  Hitherto  all  that  had  been  done 
in  the  work  of  evangelization  of  the  various  races 
composing  the  new  population  had  been  sporadic  and 
in  connection  with  local  churches.  The  prevaiHng 
conditions  served  to  make  manifest  to  those  who 
studied  the  situation  the  necessity  of  special  effort. 
In  the  light  of  subsequent  developments,  the  impor- 
tance of  this  movement  cannot  be  overestimated,  and 
the  indebtedness  of  the  denomination  locally  to  the 
Home  Mission  Society  for  its  wise  forecast  and 
initiative,  deserves  the  emphasis  of  lively  gratitude. 

It  is  to  the  honor  of  the  Baptist  denomination 
that  they  were  the  first  to  put  forth  organized  effort 
for  the  evangelization  of  the  French  in  the  United 
States. 

The  French  Baptist  work  which  is  now  being  car- 
ried on  in  New  England  began  in  1870.  The  first 
missionary  employed  was  Rev.  Narcisse  Cyr,  who 
labored  in  Haverhill,  Salem,  Worcester,  Springfield, 
Lowell,  and  Fall  River.     He  was  succeeded,  in  1873, 

97 


98  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

by  Rev.  J.  N.  Williams,  who  has  continued  as  general 
missionary  to  the  French  in  New  England  to  the 
present  time  —  a  man  of  wisdom  and  devout  Chris- 
tian spirit,  whose  labors  have  been  invaluable. 

The  general  feeling  of  the  churches  toward  distinct 
work  among  the  foreign  population  was  at  first  some- 
what averse,  for  various  reasons,  and  awaking  to  the 
responsibility  of  this  mission  field  at  our  own  doors 
came  very  slowly.  This  change  of  population,  not 
paralleled  in  any  State  in  the  Union,  which  continues 
with  accelerating  rapidity,  and  had  reached,  at  the 
time  of  the  taking  of  the  census  in  1890,  the  appal- 
ling proportion  of  62  3-4  per  cent,  of  the  inhabitants  of 
the  State,  either  foreign  born  or  of  one  remove,  fur- 
nishes one  of  the  greatest  and  gravest  problems 
which  confronts  the  Christian  Church,  and,  in  its 
broader  range,  comprehends  social,  political,  and 
ethical  questions  of  exceeding  gravity. 

The  variety  of  the  races  represented  makes  the 
work  still  more  complex  and  abounding,  and  the 
outcome  locally  is  as  yet  uncertain.  On  the  one 
hand  appears  the  application  of  the  great  law  of  as- 
similation and  the  blending  of  diverse  races  in  a  new 
citizenship,  the  general  use  in  the  second  generation 
of  the  English  language,  the  gradual  obliteration  of 
distinctive  racial  traits,  and  many  other  characteris- 
tics suggestive  of  the  preparations  of  Providence  for 
the  fulfilment  of  that  prayer  of  our  Lord  that  "  they 


Hox\.  Joseph  H.  Walker. 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH  99 

all  may  be  one."  On  the  other  hand,  if  the  Church  be 
remiss  and  fail  to  improve  her  opportunity,  there  is 
had  the  dire  possibility  that,  in  a  comparatively  few 
years,  evangelical  religion  will  be  overshadowed  and 
superseded  by  other  systems  of  religion,  with  which 
many  of  the  most  cherished  institutions  and  privi- 
leges, bought  with  a  great  price  and  accounted  most 
sacred,  are  incompatible. 

In  the  prosecution  of  this  great  work  the  securing 
of  missionaries  has  been,  and  still  continues  a  matter 
of  much  difficulty.  This  is  especially  true  of  the 
Italians,  who  are  coming  at  present  more  rapidly 
than  any  other  race,  and  are  quite  accessible. 

The  annual  report  for  1870,  from  the  trenchant 
pen  of  Doctor  Bowers,  contains  many  striking  and 
suggestive  paragraphs  applicable  to  present  condi- 
tions, of  which  the  following  are  examples  : 

"  The  Board  is  compelled  to  suggest  that  there  may  be 
places  which  need  something  more  than  money.  They  need 
working  church-members  and  a  class  of  missionary  ministers. 
.  .  .  Good  preaching  is  one  of  the  distinguishing  mercies  of 
Divine  Providence  to  any  people,  yet  it  is  far  from  being  the 
main  need  of  churches  that  report  an  attendance  at  the  sanc- 
tuary of  only  forty  or  fifty  souls,  small  and  great.  They  need 
the  '  beautiful  feet '  upon  the  mountains  of  '  Him  that  bring- 
eth  good  tidings,  and  publisheth  salvation.'  They  need  the 
activity  and  fireside  work  of  a  ministry  that  does  not  feel  it  a 
dangerous  impertinence  to  carry  Christian  labor  beyond  the 
two  or  three  score  persons  found  in  the  meeting-house  on  the 
Sabbath,  and  called  distinctively  '  our  people.'     If  some  towns 


lOO  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

like  Jericho  are  suddenly  captured  by  powerful  horns  and  holy 
blowing,  there  are  more  like  the  cities  in  the  valley  of  Rephaim 
that  can  be  gained  only  by  patiently  '  fetching  a  compass  be- 
hind' them.  There  is  a  kind  of  missionary  laborer  that  is 
always  successful  in  making  the  wilderness  and  solitary  places 
glad.  The  Board  does  not  believe  in  the  absolute  necessity  of 
any  church,  located  amongst  two  or  three  thousand  people,  re- 
maining always  in  a  languishing  and  depressed  condition." 

We  find  in  1871  the  first  mention  of  The  Woman's 
Foreign  Missionary  Society  through  the  passage  of 
the  following  resolution  : 

"  Resolved,  That  we  recognize  the  hand  of  God  in  the  for- 
mation of  The  Woman's  Missionary  Society,  and  in  its  re- 
markable prosperity  the  signal  favor  of  the  great  Head  of 
the  Church ;  that  we  should  do  all  in  our  power  to  advance 
its  interests,  and  especially  by  urging  the  formation  of  auxil- 
iary societies  in  all  the  churches  in  the  Commonwealth." 

This  year  the  President  of  the  Convention  was 
Dexter  H.  Brigham,  of  Springfield.  Although  the 
Board  made  constant  effort  to  secure  a  suitable  per- 
son to  give  his  whole  time  to  the  work  of  Secretary, 
one  after  another  of  the  men  chosen  declined,  and 
Doctor  Bowers  continued  in  connection  with  his  pas- 
torate to  serve  as  Secretary.  The  meeting  of  this 
year  was  held  with  the  Baptist  church  in  South 
Abington,  now  Whitman,  and  the  annual  report  notes 
that  the  church  received  aid  from  the  Convention 
during  the  first  ten  years  of  its  history.  After  a 
growth  of  half  a  century  it  had  "  become  the  largest 


Robert  G.  Seymour,  D.  D. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  lOI 

and  ablest  church  in  its  Association,  with  only 
twenty-five  churches  in  the  State  contributing  an 
equal  amount  for  benevolence  or  home  expenses." 
Hon.  J.  S.  Walker  was  elected  President,  C.  M. 
Bowers,  D.  D.,  continuing  in  the  office  of  Secretary. 

The  annual  meeting  of  1873  was  held  with  the 
First  Church  in  Pittsfield,  which  now  numbers  1,077, 
from  which  in  1841  report  was  received  at  the  Con- 
vention that  they  •*  are  now  few  and  feeble.  They 
have  a  good  meeting-house  in  the  delightful  village 
of  Pittsfield.  Have  no  pastor,  but  are  anxious  to 
■obtain  one.  Can  raise  $200  among  themselves,  and 
ask  ^200  from  the  Convention.  For  the  sum  of 
;^40O  they  think  a  suitable  man  may  be  obtained." 

Among  the  causes  which  have  contributed  to  the 
growth  of  this  church  may  be  mentioned  the  identi- 
fication with  its  membership  of  men  of  large  business 
ability,  as  well  as  sterling  piety,  who  have  given 
freely  of  their  time  and  means  for  the  promotion  of 
its  interests.  Notable  among  these  stands  the  name 
of  Honorable  George  N.  Briggs,  for  nine  years  Gov- 
ernor of  the  Commonwealth,  a  man  who  exemplified 
his  Christian  profession  in  his  conduct  of  public  as 
well  as  private  affairs. 

At  this  meeting  the  Convention,  on  the  sugges- 
tion of  Dr.  Albert  K.  Potter,  took  action  looking  to 
relieving  the  veteran  missionary.  Rev.  Hervey  Fittz, 
from  anxiety  with  reference  to  his  future  temporal 


102  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

need  by  the  passage  of  a  resolution  "  that  this  Con- 
vention approves  of  the  Board  continuing  the  services 
of  Rev.  Hervey  Fittz  with  a  salary  of  ;^i,ooo  per 
year  while  he  shall  live." 

A  paragraph  in  the  annual  report  suggested  that 
"the  Education  Society  might  require  of  its  benefi- 
ciaries from  this  State,  as  some  equivalent  for  aid  ren- 
dered, a  term  of  two  years'  service  with  our  feeble 
churches." 

The  report  of  1874  contains  an  allusion  to  the  im- 
portant work  of  the  Convention  among  the  foreign 
born :  "  The  Board  can  report  a  very  important 
movement  of  related  interest  in  the  successful  estab- 
lishment of  a  prosperous  mission  among  the  Swedes 
in  Boston.  In  and  around  the  metropolis  have  settled 
thousands  of  emigrants  from  Sweden,  whose  Swedish 
brethren,  Johansen  and  Ostergren,  had  already  begun 
to  collect  some  of  their  countrymen  into  small  meetings 
and  speak  to  them  of  Christ  in  their  native  tongue ; 
and  thus  exhibiting  the  spirit  of  missionary  labor,  one 
of  them  was  encouraged  to  devote  himself  exclusively 
to  the  work.  The  use  of  the  Temple  vestry,  and  that 
also  of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  has  been  kindly 
allowed  the  Swedes,  and  a  congregation  of  over  two 
hundred  souls  has  been  gathered  to  enjoy  the  Word 
of  Life.  The  work  has  been  signally  blessed,  quite  a 
number  having  been  converted  and  admitted  to  the 
fellowship  of  the  Temple  Church." 


Hon.  E.  S.  Wilkinson. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

By  the  increased  financial  ability  of  the  Convention, 
through  the  income  of  the  Burastead  Estate  and  from 
other  resources,  an  aggressive  work  was  made  possi- 
ble, and  in  1875  much  attention  was  given  by  the 
Board  to  the  finding  of  new  centres  of  population  in 
which  Baptist  churches  ought  to  be  formed.  In  the 
annual  report  the  organization  of  a  church  in  Spencer, 
a  second  church  in  Fitchburg,  and  one  in  Blackstone, 
were  recommended.  The  largest  appropriation  for 
any  individual  church  or  mission  was  this  year  appro- 
priated to  the  Swedish  work  in  Boston,  amounting  to 

^400. 

In  1876  some  apprehension  arose  with  reference  to 
the  possible  harm  which  might  come  from  the  increase 
of  life  directors  privileged  to  vote  in  all  meetings  of 
the  Board,  and  the  Constitution  was  amended  to  in- 
clude a  new  form  of  membership  known  as  "  Honorary 
Life  Directors." 

An  additional  missionary,   in  the  person  of  Rev. 

Jonathan  Tilson,  this  year  received  an  appointment 

and  entered  upon  a  career  of  usefulness  extending 

over  a  term  of  years. 

103 


I04  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

Deacon  George  W,  Chipman,  the  immediate  suc- 
cessor of  William  Ticknor,  who  had  for  so  many 
years  served  as  Treasurer  of  the  Convention,  and 
cooperated  most  heartily  with  Rev.  Hervey  Fittz 
in  the  organization  of  the  church  at  Hudson,  and 
churches  in  other  places,  retired  from  service,  and 
was  succeeded,  for  the  only  time  in  the  history  of 
the  Convention,  by  a  clergyman,  Andrew  Pollard, 
D.  D. 

What  seems  to  have  been  a  backward  step  was 
for  some  reason  taken  this  year  in  the  turning  over 
of  the  Swedish  work  in  Boston  to  the  Home  Mission 
Society.  On  the  other  hand,  an  advance  step  was 
made  in  a  successful  attempt  to  group  two  or  more 
churches  under  one  pastor. 

In  1877  the  records  of  the  meeting  contained  the 
following  resolution,  adopted  on  motion  of  Rev.  R  S. 
Evans  : 

"  Resolved^  That  it  be  suggested  to  the  consideration  of  the 
Board  to  adopt  the  following  rules  of  administration : 

"  I .  That  the  members  of  the  Board  from  the  several  Asso- 
ciations be  a  sub-committee  of  the  Board,  to  whom  all  appli- 
cations of  the  churches  for  aid  within  said  Association  shall 
be  made,  and  such  committee  shall  make  a  written  statement 
to  the  Board  of  the  condition  of  such  churches  and  their  claims 
upon  the  Board. 

"  2.  That  the  Board  appoint  an  Executive  Committee  of  nine 
members,  including  the  President,  Secretary,  and  Treasurer, 
to  whom  all  communications  of  the  Associational  Sub-Com- 
mittee shall  come,  and  who  shall  make  all  apportionments  of 


William  H.  Breed. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  I05 

money  to  the  churches,  and  transact  all  the  business  the  Board 
may  entrust  to  them." 

The  Treasurer's  account  revealed  the  astonishing 
fact  that,  during  the  fiscal  year,  the  churches  of  the 
State  contributed  on  an  average  only  $\6  apiece  for 
State  Missions,  It  is  also  noted  in  striking  contrast 
in  this  report :  "  There  are  fifty  ministers  to-day  in 
Massachusetts  that  ought  to  have  from  some  source 
an  addition  to  their  salaries  of  two  or  three  hundred 
dollars  each." 

As  an  illustration  of  the  errors  of  opinion  which 
used  to  obtain  in  some  of  our  churches,  witness  the 
following  extract  from  a  letter  to  the  Board.  In 
answer  to  the  question  whether  the  church  was 
doing  any  missionary  work,  the  clerk  replied,  "We 
think  the  work  of  visiting  and  inviting  to  Christ  be- 
longs to  pastors." 

The  first  steps  taken  looking  to  the  organization  of 
a  church  edifice  department  in  State  mission  work 
was  taken  in  1878  by  the  adoption  of  the  following 
resolutions  : 

"  I.  Resolved^  That  if  in  the  judgment  of  the  Board  it  be 
deemed  expedient,  the  Board  shall  place  before  the  churches 
of  the  Commonwealth  one  or  two  promising  fields  needing  and 
desiring  aid  in  church  or  chapel  building,  requesting  special 
gifts  to  be  disbursed  by  a  committee  of  laymen  appointed  by 
the  Board  for  that  purpose. 

"  2.  Resolved,  That  the  Board  have  authority,  if  in  its  judg- 
ment it  seems  advisable,  to  set  aside  as  a  building  fund  a  part 


I06  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

of  all  the  income  of  the  invested  funds  of  the  Convention,  to 
be  used  at  intervals  of  two  or  three  years  for  this  purpose  of 
building,  enlarging,  or  repairing  houses  of  worship," 

This  year  the  Convention  was  called  to  mourn  the 
loss  of  two  of  its  long-time  servants  in  the  persons  of 
Deacon  Asa  Wilbur  and  Rev,  Hervey  Fittz.  For 
over  thirty-five  years  they  had  been  associated,  and 
counselled  together  in  things  pertaining  to  the  growth 
of  our  Zion.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  when 
Father  Fittz  was  appointed  missionary,  Deacon  Asa 
Wilbur  presided.  Seven  years  he  served  as  President, 
and  for  more  than  thirty  years  as  Director.  He  was 
also  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee. His  name  takes  fit  place  with  Batchelder, 
Lincoln,  and  Loring,  and  other  noble  laymen. 

Father  Fittz,  the  beloved  missionary,  received  his 
first  appointment  in  1843.  When  he  died  there  was 
not  a  single  individual  holding  a  place  among  the 
Directors  or  officers  of  the  Convention  who  was  offi- 
cially connected  with  it  at  the  time  of  his  appointment. 
Robert  C.  Mills,  D.  D.,  President  of  the  Convention 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  said  of  him,  "  Most  men  in 
their  labors  give  a  part  of  themselves,  but  Father 
Fittz  in  his  missionary  services  invested  his  whole 
being." 

In  connection  with  a  resolution  instructing  the 
Board  to  consider  the  question  of  an  Executive  Com- 
mittee, other  extensive  readjustments  were  discussed, 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  lOJ 

and  the  recommendation  renewed  to  employ  a  Secre- 
tary and  Superintendent  who  would  be  able  to  give 
his  whole  time  to  the  work  of  the  Convention.  The 
choice  in  this  instance  fell  upon  Rev.  George  W.  Gard- 
ner, but  like  many  others,  he  declined  the  arduous  ser- 
vice, and  clerical  duties,  with  such  other  aid  as  he 
was  able  to  render,  remained  for  another  year  in  the 
hands  of  Doctor  Bowers. 

The  year  1879  was  in  some  respects  the  most 
notable  of  the  decade  now  under  consideration. 
After  repeated  failures,  a  Secretary  and  Superin- 
tendent were  secured  in  the  person  of  George  W. 
Bosworth,  D.  D.,  who  entered  upon  a  service  of 
eminent  usefulness  continuing  until  his  death  in 
1888.  Before  accepting  the  position,  he  submitted 
in  writing  his  conception  of  what  ought  to  be  done, 
which  obtained  approval  at  the  hands  of  the  newly 
constituted  Executive  Committee.  In  accordance 
with  his  recommendation,  the  advance  movement 
looking  to  the  organization  of  churches  and  the 
building  of  meeting-houses  in  new  and  important 
centres  was,  from  the  beginning  of  his  administration, 
made  a  special  feature  of  State  mission  work.  In 
accord  with  this  plan,  the  following  resolution  was 
adopted : 

"  Resolved,  That  hereafter  no  part  of  the  income  of  the 
invested  funds  shall  be  used  in  appropriations  merely  to  sup- 
port preaching ;  but,  when  in  the  judgment  of  the  Board  or 


I08  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

the  Executive  Committee,  it  may  be  expedient  to  use  a  portion 
of  said  income  for  other  purposes  than  lessening  the  debt  of 
the  corporation,  the  same  shall  be  devoted  to  the  work  of  pro- 
viding suitable  places  of  worship  in  fields  especially  needing 
them." 

An  order  was  also  adopted  at  the  annual  meeting 
of  this  year  that  the  Committee  on  Nominations 
submit  their  report  for  the  next  annual  meeting 
in  the  form  of  printed  ballots,  a  practice  which  has 
since  prevailed.  An  ineffectual  effort  was  made  at 
the  same  session  to  secure  the  printing  under  one 
cover  of  the  minutes  of  the  several  Associations 
and  those  of  the  State  anniversaries.  In  the  way 
of  church  building,  special  attention  was  given  this 
year  to  meeting-houses  in  Franklin  and  Brockton. 

In  1880  Hon.  Eustace  C.  Fitz  succeeded  to  the 
Presidency  of  the  Convention. 

This  might  be  properly  distinguished  as  a  debt- 
paying  year,  for  report  was  made  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  discharge  of  indebtedness  of  various 
churches  to  the  amount  of  ;$2 17,736.  Among  the 
churches  thus  emancipated  were  First,  Pittsfield, 
First,  Medford,  Warren  Avenue,  Boston,  and  First, 
Lawrence. 

An  important  step  was  taken  on  motion  of  Deacon 
George  W.  Chipman  by  the  adoption  of  the  follow- 
ing order : 

"  Ordered,  That  the  Executive  Committee  be  instructed  to 
make  no  appropriation  toward  the  expense  of  building  any 


Hon.  E.  Nelson  Blake. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  IO9 

meeting-house  or  toward  the  liquidation  of  any  debt  on  a 
meeting-house,  unless  the  titles  to  such  house  be  so  arranged, 
by  the  necessary  legal  instrument  and  acts,  as  to  secure  to  the 
Convention  the  aforesaid  property  in  case  the  church  owning 
it,  and  receiving  such  aid,  shall,  at  any  future  day,  cease  to 
exist,  or  to  maintain  the  institutions  and  observe  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  gospel,  as  a  regular  Baptist  Church." 

This  inaugurated  a  policy  which  has  since  been 
pursued  with  ever  increasing  appreciation  of  its 
value. 

The  number  of  new  churches  organized  during  the 
decade  ending  with  1880  was  thirty.  The  number 
dropped  from  the  list  was  six.  The  marked  decrease 
in  the  number  of  churches  becoming  extinct  shows 
that  the  decline  in  population  had  in  a  great  measure 
spent  its  force.  The  increase  in  membership  during 
this  period  was  7,289. 

In  1 88 1  it  was  found  necessary  to  modify  the  vote 
by  which  the  income  of  the  permanent  fund  was 
devoted  exclusively  to  building  purposes  and  desig- 
nated as  the  church  edifice  fund.  The  completion 
of  a  meeting-house  was  made  an  occasion  for  rejoic- 
ing, it  being  the  first  instance  of  a  building  set  apart 
for  public  worship  in  which  the  gospel  was  to  be 
preached  in  a  foreign  tongue.  The  next  year  appro- 
priations to  aid  in  building  were  paid  to  six  churches, 
and  pledges  were  made  to  West  Springfield,  Maple- 
wood,  and  Lincoln  Square,  Worcester.  Aid  to  main- 
tain public  worship  was  given  to  forty-one  churches. 


I  lO  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

The  annual  meeting  in  1883  adopted  the  following 
resolution,  moved  by  Dr.  B.  D.  Marshall : 

'■'■Resolved,  That  the  time  has  come  when  this  Convention 
should  unite  with  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society 
in  their  efforts  to  reach  the  French  Canadians  residing  in  this 
Commonwealth." 

The  foundation  for  this  action  was  probably  found 
in  the  following  paragraph  from  the  annual  report : 

"  A  French  Baptist  mission  was  established  in  Worcester  in 
the  fall  of  1880,  which  has  been  supported  financially  by  the 
American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  and  the  Baptist 
churches  in  that  city.  It  has  prospered,  and  the  circum- 
stances evidently  demand  its  continuance.  It  has  been  pro- 
posed, both  by  the  churches  there,  and  the  Secretary  of  the 
Home  Mission  Society,  that  this  Convention  join  that  Society 
in  this  enterprise,  as  the  Connecticut  and  other  State  Conven- 
tions have  done  in  similar  cases.  The  Worcester  churches 
have  greatly  honored  themselves  by  their  very  liberal  aggres- 
sive movements,  not  only  in  behalf  of  the  people  '  to  the 
manor  born,'  but  also  in  behalf  of  the  French,  and  of  the 
Swedes,  who  have  a  flourishing  church,  to  whom  they  have 
pledged  $4,000  and  more  toward  the  cost  of  a  meeting-house, 
which  they  have  undertaken  to  build.  Surely  the  Convention 
cannot  hesitate  to  cooperate  with  them  in  such  labors. 

"  Brethren  and  Friends,  whether  we  consider  the  nature  of 
the  work  into  which  we  have  entered,  or  the  responsibility 
connected  with  the  funds  entrusted  to  us  for  distribution,  or 
the  signal  success,  which,  under  God,  has  attended  our  opera- 
tions, or  the  opportunities  which  now  confront  us,  we  cannot 
fail  to  hear  calls,  and  to  feel  powerful  influences  to  earnest 
and  conscientious  exertions  to  fulfil  the  mission  of  this  Society, 
so  that  we  may  transmit  the  trust  to  our  successors  with  such 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  III 

a  record  as  shall  save  us  from  reproach,  and  incite  them  to 
deeds  far  nobler,  which  the  future  conditions  of  this  Common- 
wealth are  likely  to  demand,  and  their  resources  will  doubtless 
enable  them  to  perform." 


CHAPTER    XIV. 

Through  an  amendment  to  the  Constitution,  the 
plan  of  electing  the  Board  in  three  classes  was 
adopted  in  1884,  and  the  Executive  Committee  en- 
larged to  nine  members.  This  year,  also,  marked 
a  change  in  the  presiding  officer,  R.  G.  Seymour, 
D.  D.,  succeeding  Hon,  Eustace  C.  Fitz. 

At  the  same  meeting  the  initiative  was  taken  look- 
ing to  the  enlargement  of  the  Sunday-school  work  in 
the  State :  George  C.  Whitney,  C.  D.  Morris,  D.  D., 
and  L.  B.  Philbrick  were  appointed  to  act  with  the 
Committee  of  Arrangements  for  the  next  meeting,  in 
arranging  for  a  meeting  in  the  interests  of  the  Sun- 
day-school work  of  the  State.  The  outcome  of  this 
resolution  and  the  further  discussion  of  the  matter 
of  State  Sunday-school  organization  ultimated  the 
next  year  in  the  organization  of  that  now  vigorous 
and  well-known  body,  the  Massachusetts  Baptist 
Sunday  School  Association,  from  whose  planting 
of  Sunday  schools  so  many  churches  have  been 
organized,  and  whose  influence  upon  the  Sunday- 
school  work  of  the  State  has  been  so  great  as  to 
attract  much  attention. 


Stephen  Moore, 
President  Sunday  School  Association,  1891 — 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  II3 

The  organization  of  the  Association  in  1885  was 
effected  by  the  choice  of  Mr.  George  C.  Whitney  as 
President,  C.  C.  Barry,  Corresponding  Secretary,  and 
F.  F.  Morton,  Recording  Secretary. 

In  1888,  Mr.  WilHam  N.  Hartshorn  succeeded  to 
the  Presidency,  continuing  in  office  until  1891,  and 
rendering  most  valuable  service.  He  was  succeeded 
by  Mr.  Stephen  Moore,  who  has  continued  to  admir- 
ably discharge  the  duties  of  the  position  until  the 
present  time,  and  has  given  freely  of  his  best 
thought,  his  money,  and  his  time  for  promoting  the 
work  of  the  Society. 

After  a  discussion  extending  over  years  immedi- 
ately preceding,  in  1890  the  Association  decided  to 
employ  the  services  of  a  State  Secretary  whose  entire 
time  should  be  given  to  promoting  the  interests  of 
the  Sunday-school  work  in  Massachusetts,  and  Mr. 
Wilham  W.  Main  was  appointed  to  that  position, 
which  he  has  since  filled  with  great  efficiency,  his 
labors  having  been  attended  with  marked  success. 

During  the  period  since  the  organization  of  the 
Association,  it  numbers  among  its  achievements  the 
organization  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  Sunday  schools, 
out  of  which  thirty-six  churches  have  been  formed, 
and  the  erection  of  seventeen  chapels,  valued  at 
^28,400.  This  enlargement  has  been  attended  by 
an  increase  of  membership  in  the  Sunday  schools  of 
the  State  of  11,916,  and  it  is  a  most  significant  fact 


I  1 4  HIS  TO  RICA  L   SKE  T€H 

that  during  the  past  decade  seventy-five  per  cent,  of 
the  baptisms  into  the  Baptist  churches  of  the  State 
have  been  from  the  membership  of  the  Sunday 
schools. 

During  the  past  three  years  special  attention  has 
been  given  to  the  formation  of  organized  men's 
classes  for  Bible  study  in  connection  with  other 
departments  of  Sunday-school  work.  About  one 
hundred  of  these  classes  have  been  formed,  with 
over  six  thousand  men  enrolled. 

The  funds  required  for  the  prosecution  of  so  exten- 
sive a  work  have  been  provided  through  various 
channels,  among  the  most  efficient  of  which  may  be 
numbered  the  "  Helpers'  League."  A  large  amount 
of  literature  has  also  been  distributed,  while  the  con- 
ferences and  institutes  for  Sunday-school  workers 
which  have  been  held,  and  the  special  instruction 
given,  has  tended  largely  to  lift  the  standard  of  the 
work  done  by  the  Bible  schools  throughout  the 
State. 

Among  the  churches  receiving  aid  to  build  this 
year  were  Spencer ;  Vineyard  Haven  ;  Worcester, 
First  Swede ;  Brockton,  Swede ;  and  Stoughton 
Street,  Boston,  $i,ooo  each.  Fifteen  hundred  dollars 
was  also  paid  Roslindale  for  the  same  purpose. 

The  report  of  the  Board  for  1884  speaks  of  special 
efforts  and  generous  aid  rendered  in  an  attempt  to 
establish  churches  in  Revere,  Roslindale,  and  Lower 


William  W.  Main. 
Secretary  Sunday  Scliool  Association,  1890- 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  II5 

Mills.  Very  soon  after  its  organization,  the  vigor- 
ous young  church  at  Lincoln  Square,  in  1885,  in- 
vited the  holding  of  the  State  anniversaries  with 
them. 

Among  the  churches  receiving  aid  to  build  this 
year  were  the  Fourth  Street,  South  Boston ;  Athol ; 
and  Union,  Cambridge.  Of  the  year's  work  as  a  whole, 
it. was  said:  "The  reports  have  recorded  successes 
unparalleled  in  the  history  of  the  Convention." 

During  this  year  the  work  among  the  foreign-born 
was  enlarged  by  the  appointing  of  a  French  mission- 
^ary  to  Lowell  and  Haverhill.  The  working  force  in 
the  Worcester  Association  was  also  increased.  Dur- 
ing a  large  part  of  the  year  two  evangelists  were 
employed  holding  meetings  with  various  churches, 
and  a  third  evangelist  was  reported  as  under  engage- 
ment for  the  year  to  come. 

In  1886  the  name  of  Dwight  Chester  appears  for 
the  first  time  as  Treasurer  of  the  Convention,  he 
having  been  preceded  for  a  brief  term  of  service  by 
William  A.  Munroe,  Esq.,  who  through  legal  assist- 
ance and  in  many  other  ways,  has  rendered  the 
Society  invaluable  service. 

Mr.  Chester  has  continued  with  fidelity  to  dis- 
charge the  increasingly  onerous  duties  of  the  position 
until  the  present  time,  the  years  of  1892-93  ex- 
cepted, when  the  position  was  filled  in  an  able  and 
satisfactory  manner  by  William  H.  Breed,  who  has 


Il6  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

been  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  who  felt  compelled  after  two  years'  ser- 
vice, by  reason  of  ill-health,  to  decline  reelection. 

Among  the  new  churches  organized  this  year 
were  North  Abington  and  North  Brockton. 

That  this  was  a  year  of  continuance  in  extensive 
evangelistic  work  appears  in  the  report  that  the 
committee  had  employed  the  full-time  services  of 
Rev.  O.  D.  Thomas,  and  also  engaged  Rev'ds 
W.  H.  Batson,  S.  Hartwell  Pratt,  R.  M.  Birdsall, 
and  H,  G.  DeWitt  for  a  portion  of  the  year.  Large 
appropriations  were  also  made  for  building  purposes 
in  Worcester,  Brockton  North,  Carew  Street,  Spring- 
field, and  smaller  sums  to  ten  other  churches  and 
missions,  including  a  grant  of  ^500  to  Inman  Square, 
Cambridge. 

During  the  latter  part  of  this  decade,  1880-90, 
in  several  of  the  largest  cities  of  the  Commonwealth 
the  Baptist  churches  organized  for  city  mission  work, 
and  the  increased  strength  of  concerted  effort  resulted 
in  the  organization  of  numerous  churches,  several  of 
which  are  at  present  among  the  strongest  in  the 
State.  In  the  earlier  stages  of  the  history  of  these 
churches,  the  aid  rendered  by  the  Convention  was 
generally  made  through  the  local  city  mission  society, 
which  became  responsible  for  the  proper  disburse- 
ment of  the  funds  received.  It  is  a  significant  fact 
that,  while  these  city  mission  societies  were  active, 


DwiGHT  Chester, 
Treasurer,  1894 — 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  II/ 

the  growth  of  the  denomination  in  their  localities 
was  much  more  rapid  than  in  years  preceding,  or 
subsequent. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  1887  it  was  voted,  on 
motion  of  A.  J.  Gordon,  D.  D.,  "That  the  Board  of 
the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Convention  be  authorized 
to  take  from  the  invested  funds  of  the  Society,  a 
sum  not  exceeding  ^10,000,  annually,  for  the  next 
ten  years,  and  employ  the  same  in  assisting  to  plant 
new  churches  and  to  erect  meeting-houses,  in  such 
localities  as  they  may  judge  best." 

Hon.  E.  S.  Wilkinson,  of  North  Adams,  was  elected 
President  of  the  Society. 

The  meeting  heartily  endorsed  the  action  of  the 
Executive  Committee  in  the  employment  of  the  best 
evangelistic  talent,  and  instructed  them  to  prosecute 
this  enterprise  with  unrelaxed  energy.  The  resolution 
was  also  adopted  "That  a  Committee  of  Three  be 
appointed  by  the  Convention  to  confer  with  the 
Newton  Theological  Institution,  and  on  behalf  of  the 
Convention,  under  advice  of  the  Executive  Committee, 
to  facilitate  so  far  as  possible  the  establishing  of  a 
training  school  for  French  Baptist  ministers  in  con- 
nection with  the  Institution." 

Among  the  new  applicants  for  aid  to  build  at  this 
period  are  found  Winter  Hill,  Somerville ;  Mt.  Wash- 
ington, Haverhill ;  Warren  Avenue,  Brockton  ;  and 
the  Ebenezer  Church,  Boston. 


Il8  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

Eight  different  towns  find  mention  at  which  work 
was  being  done  among  the  Swedes,  and  the  abundant 
labors  of  the  year  found  partial  fruitage  in  the 
organization  of  four  new  churches,  one  of  which, 
Dorchester  Temple,  has  since  become  large  in  mem- 
bership and  influence. 

In  January,  1888,  Dr.  George  W,  Bosworth,  for 
eleven  years  the  resourceful  and  able  Secretary  of 
the  Society,  died.  That  part  of  his  service  covered 
by  the  period  from  1880  to  1888  was  one  of  great 
enlargement  in  the  work  of  the  Convention.  He 
watched  over  the  infant  life  of  many  churches  which 
have  since  become  very  strong,  and  standing  memo- 
rials to  the  wisdom  and  foresight  which  led  to  their 
planting.  In  the  growth  of  the  eleven  churches 
organized  in  the  year  immediately  preceding  his 
death,  he  was  intensely  interested.  While  highly 
esteemed  for  his  powers  as  a  preacher  and  his  excel- 
lent qualities  as  a  pastor,  it  may  be  that  in  this  last 
work  of  his  life,  to  which  he  gave  himself  so  fully,  he 
accomplished  more  tending  to  the  uplifting  of  the 
Kingdom  of  Christ  than  in  any  other  sphere  of  his 
varied  and  useful  labors. 

He  was  succeeded  by  the  present  Secretary,  who 
was  elected  at  a  meeting  specially  called  to  fill  the 
vacancy  for  the  remainder  of  the  year  1888. 

During  this  most  recent  period  in  the  history  of 
the  Society,  the  poHcy  pursued  has  been  in  the  main 


Dudley  P.  Bailey,  Esq. 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  II9 

a  continuance  and  enlargement  on  that  of  the  years 
immediately  preceding. 

The  closing  decade  of  the  Nineteenth  Century 
was  marked  by  the  large  gifts  made  to  the  mis- 
sionary work  of  the  Convention  from  such  men 
as  Henry  A.  Pevear,  Barnabas  D,  Capen,  Joseph 
C.  Foster,  D.  D.,  and  Hon.  Chester  W.  Kingsley. 
These  men  following  in  the  footsteps  of  such  noble 
givers  as  Hon.  J.  Warren  Merrill,  and  others  of  an 
earlier  time,  have  manifested  by  their  deeds  their 
appreciation  of  the  importance  of  vigorous  prosecu- 
tion of  the  work  of  home  evangelization. 

A  complete  list  of  such  benefactions  will  be  found 
in  Historical  Notes,  on  page  130. 

In  1889  William  A.  Munroe,  Esq.,  retired  from 
the  onerous  position  of  Attorney  of  the  Society,  in 
whose  affairs  he  had  long  taken  so  deep  an  interest, 
and  whose  generous  contributions  of  money  as  well 
as  time  had  been  freely  bestowed.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Dudley  P.  Bailey,  Esq.,  who  has  since 
rendered  an  uninterrupted  and  most  efficient  service, 
and  fully  deserves  the  gratitude  of  the  Society  whose 
interests  he  has  in  so  many  ways  subserved. 

In  1 89 1,  after  a  service  of  great  fidelity  and 
usefulness,  Hon.  E.  S.  Wilkinson  declined  reelec- 
tion, and  was  succeeded  by  another  distinguished 
layman,  H.  H,  Bowman,  Esq.,  who  for  three  years 
presided  over  the  public  meetings    of   the   Society 


120  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

with  dignity  and  tact.  He  was  succeeded  in  1894 
by  Hon.  E,  Nelson  Blake,  a  man  whose  whole  being 
was  pervaded  by  missionary  enthusiasm,  and  whose 
service  was  fully  in  keeping  with  the  best  traditions 
of  the  position.  On  his  retirement  in  1898,  J.  P. 
Abbott,  D.  D.,  who  had  been  for  a  number  of  years 
an  active  and  devoted  member  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  and  a  leader  in  the  counsels  and  enter- 
prises of  the  Society,  was  chosen  President.  Before, 
however,  he  had  completed  a  full  year's  service,  he 
was  called  to  a  pastorate  in  Wisconsin,  and  obliged 
to  retire  after  so  brief  service,  to  the  regret  of  many. 
At  the  annual  meeting  in  1899,  Rev.  Edwin  P. 
Farnham  was  chosen  President,  and  for  three  years 
occupied  the  chair  with  grace,  and  extended  his 
helpful  interest  to  every  department  of  the  Society's 
varied  work.  On  his  retirement  in  1902,  he  was 
succeeded  by  George  C.  Whitney,  who  had  been 
a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  from  the 
time  of  its  organization,  and  for  several  years  imme- 
diately preceding  his  election  as  President  of  the 
Society  had  served  as  its  chairman. 


James  P.  Abbott,  D.  D. 


CHAPTER  XV. 

A  BEGINNING  had  previously  been  made  in  the  ap- 
plication of  undesignated  funds  in  the  hands  of  the 
Society  to  aid  in  church  building.  This  policy  was 
continued  until  nothing  was  left  but  the  permanent 

fund. 

Notwithstanding  this  extensive  reduction  in  the 
assets  of  the  Society,  the  permanent  fund  has  in- 
creased from  ^272,220  in  1888  to  ^345.555  at  the 
present  time.  Nearly  every  year  for  the  past  decade 
from  the  gathered  accumulations  of  a  lifetime  some 
brother  or  sister  in  making  final  disposition  of  prop- 
erty has  left  a  portion  to  the  Convention.  Where 
no  conditions  have  been  specified,  and  the  gift  was 
made  for  the  general  purposes  of  the  Convention,  the 
legacy  has  been  applied  to  the  meeting  of  current 
expenses,  but  in  many  cases  it  has  been  specified 
that  the  income  only  should  be  used,  and  in  a  num- 
ber of  cases  special  churches  have  been  designated 
as  beneficiaries,  while  they  may  remain  in  need  of 
such  aid  or  continue  to  maintain  public  worship  as 
regular  Baptist  churches.  Several  parties  advanced 
in  years  have  also  chosen  to  be  their  own  executors. 


122  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

and  have  paid  into  the  Convention  treasury  amounts 
on  which  they,  or  other  specified  parties,  are  to  re- 
ceive the  interest  at  a  specified  rate  during  Ufe. 

Since  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Convention  in 
1888,  there  have  been  received  bequests  without 
conditions  amounting  to  $20,121.48,  which  amount 
has  been  expended  for  general  ordinary  work  of  the 
Convention. 

During  the  same  period  there  has  been  received  in 
bequests  and  from  hving  donors  $128,111.11,  which 
has  been  added  to  the  permanent  fund,  and  of  which 
the  income  only  can  be  used. 

Additions  to  the  permanent  fund,  amounting  to 
$12,150  have  been  made,  of  which  the  income  is  to 
be  paid  to  designated  churches. 

From  the  Royce  Fund  $18,500  has  been  received 
and  designated  to  certain  named  churches  to  aid  in 
building. 

Thirty-three  thousand,  nine  hundred  dollars  has 
been  received  with  an  agreement  to  pay  the  donor, 
or  some  party  named,  a  designated  income  during  life. 

The  total  receipts  during  this  period  from  these 
sources  for  the  purposes  named  are  $212,782.59,  of 
which  $38,621.48  has  been  expended,  and  $174, 161. 11 
remains  as  part  of  the  permanent  funds  of  the  Con- 
vention, 

These  contributions  —  most  welcome  and  helpful 
—  have  been  made  in  varying  amounts  according  to 


Rev.  Edwin  P.  Farnham. 


HISTORICAL    SKETCH  1 23 

the  ability  and  election  of  the  donor,  and  the  smallest 
donation  may  have  been  given  with  a  spirit  of  con- 
secration as  deep,  and  a  love  as  ardent,  as  that  of 
those  who  have  been  able  to  enrich  the  treasury  by 
the  gift  of  thousands.  One  legacy,  that  of  Daniel  S. 
Ford,  has  as  yet  been  paid  only  in  part. 

That  an  endowment  of  so  considerable  amount 
should  have  an  unfavorable  effect  by  diminishing 
the  contributions  of  some  individuals  is  no  doubt 
true,  but  it  is  unlikely  that  the  liberality  without 
such  endowment  would  have  been  so  enlarged  as  to 
allow  the  prosecution  of  the  work  of  the  Society 
upon  the  scale  of  its  present  magnitude,  and  under 
existing  conditions  of  need  which  are  likely  to  in- 
crease rather  than  diminish  in  the  immediate  future, 
it  is  doubtful  if  those  who  are  making  disposition  of 
their  property,  with  recognition  of  the  claims  of  Chris- 
tian stewardship,  can  make  any  investment  of  a  sum 
likely  to  yield  greater  returns  in  the  increase  of  the 
kingdom,  than  by  setting  aside  a  portion  for  sustain- 
ing preaching  of  the  gospel  to  the  new  population, 
so  many  of  whom  know  not  the  sound  thereof. 

While  the  decline  of  population  in  various  towns 
in  Berkshire  and  Franklin  Counties  and  on  Cape 
Cod  has  been  in  the  main  arrested,  there  has  not  been 
sufficient  recovery  to  materially  improve  the  hard 
conditions  under  which  the  country  churches  in 
these  localities  struggle  for  existence,  and  an  increase 


124  HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

of  appropriations  from  time  to  time  has  been  made 
necessary  in  order  to  keep  the  candlestick  in  its 
place.  In  some  instances,  the  aid  received  from 
without  has  proved  ineffectual  to  arrest  the  decline 
in  members,  and  unless  more  favorable  conditions 
arise,  or  more  successful  methods  for  cultivating 
fields  are  adopted,  additional  names  will  drop  from 
the  list  of  our  churches. 

The  overwhelming  tide  of  immigration,  which  has 
continued  until  Massachusetts  has  become  propor- 
tionally more  foreign  than  any  other  State  in  the 
Union,  has  created  a  demand  by  the  exigencies  of 
the  situation,  and  afforded  an  opportunity  for  indefi- 
nite enlargement  in  the  foreign  department  of  work. 
The  only  line  on  which  there  has  been  a  decrease  of 
expenditure  has  been  that  of  evangelistic  work.  In 
somewhat  sharp  contrast  from  the  extensive  employ- 
ment of  evangelists  in  1889-90  the  Convention  has, 
in  more  recent  years,  gone  to  the  other  extreme, 
thus  repeating  the  tendency  which  has  been  so 
generally  manifested  by  the  churches  independent 
of  aid. 

The  work  of  the  State  Missionary  Society  is  so 
largely  conserving  and  advisory  that  no  statistical 
summary  can  be  made  to  include  much  of  its  most 
important  service,  but  statistics  show  that  during  the 
past  fourteen  years  it  has  aided  fifty-one  young 
churches,   expended  $144,138.21    in   sustaining   old 


George  C.  Whitney, 
President,  1902 — 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH  12$ 

Churches,  invested  $135,825.65  in  meeting-houses 
and  chapels  and  for  new  interests;  affording  aid  in 
one  or  the  other  of  these  forms  to  148  churches. 
During  the  same  period  it  has  expended  $59,098.88  m 
giving  the  gospel  to  alien  races  who  have  come  to  make 
their  homes  among  us,  divided  as  follows  : 


To  the  French 

"  "    Swedes 

"  "    Germans   . 

1'  "    Portuguese 

"  "    Finns 

"  "    ItaUans 

'«  «'    Russians    . 


$34,943  87 
8,408  24 

4,427  50 
7,982  29 

1,613  25 

1,620  73 

100  00 


During  this  period  there  has  been  a  gain  of  thirty- 
seven  in  the  number  of  Baptist  churches  in  Massa- 
chusetts,  and  of    14,171    in  the  number  of  church 

members.  . 

The  marked  decline  in  the   rural    population   of 
several  counties,   the  increased   facilities  for  travel 
with  steam  and  electric  hues,  radiating  m  all  direc- 
tions from  the  centres  of  city  life,  making  residence 
possible  remote  from  the  place  of  daily  labor,  and 
the  growing   Roman   Catholic  population,   with  the 
noticeable   increase  in   the  non-churchgoing  popula- 
tion,   tend   to    make   the   future    of   many  old   and 
historic  churches  precarious  in  the  extreme,  not  only 
furnishing  problems  hard  to  solve,  but  makmg  it  a 
matter  of  wonder  and  thanksgiving  that  during  this 


126  HISTORICAL  SKETCH 

transitional  period  so  few  churches  —  only  five  — 
have  become  extinct. 

A  thoughtful  man,  familiar  with  the  present  con- 
ditions, can  hardly  look  forward  seeking  to  discern 
the  signs  of  the  times,  without  apprehension.  The 
standard  of  Christ  was  raised  in  this  world  never  to 
be  lowered,  but  whether  it  is  to  be  permanent  in  any 
given  locality,  Massachusetts  not  excepted,  is  still  an 
open  question.  With  such  a  wealth  of  history  with 
its  treasured  lessons  behind,  such  perils  confronting 
the  Church,  and  such  a  present  opportunity  afforded 
by  the  new  population,  there  is  a  demand  not  only 
for  the  continuance  of  the  Society's  work,  but,  more 
than  this,  for  enlargement  along  every  line  of  effort. 
If  the  opportunities  are  somewhat  changed  from  the 
day  of  beginnings  a  century  ago,  who  shall  say  that 
with  the  million-footed  tramp  of  our  dense  popula- 
tion, they  are  not  greater  than  ever  before } 

It  may  be  that  this  unexampled  comminghng  of 
races,  making  the  whole  State  in  city  and  country  a 
mission  field,  is  the  preparation  of  Providence,  through 
the  evangelization  of  the  French,  the  Italians,  the 
Portuguese,  the  Finns,  the  Swedes,  and  others  of 
varying  dialect  and  hue,  to  the  more  speedily  give 
the  gospel  to  all  nations,  and  allow  Massachusetts 
Baptists,  in  the  accomplishment  of  a  purpose  so  sub- 
lime, to  be  in  a  special  sense  laborers  together  with 
God. 


Historical  Notes  as  to  the  Invested 

Funds   and   Finances   of  the 

Convention 

BY   DUDLEY    P.     BAILEY,   ESQ. 

The  early  history  of  our  invested  funds  is  wrapped  in 
much  obscurity.  The  convention  had  a  fund  as  early  as 
1836,  amounting  to  upwards  of  $3,000,  though  from  what 
source  it  was  derived  the  treasurers'  reports  fail  to  state; 
neither  is  there  on  the  treasurer's  books  until  185 1  any  state- 
ment showing  the  amount  or  character  of  the  fund.  The 
receipts  of  interest  from  year  to  year  show  that  the  original 
fund  of  $3,000  or  a  little  more  had  during  the  period  of 
depression  following  the  crisis  of  1837  dwindled  to  a  very 
small  amount.  In  1846  the  fund  was  reinforced  from  an 
unexpected  quarter  by  a  legacy  given  by  Thompson  Baxter, 
of  Bridgewater,  who  died  in  1814,  leaving  a  valuable  estate 
to  be  divided  equally  on  the  death  of  his  widow  among  all 
the  societies  then  legally  organized  in  Massachusetts  for 
the  spread  of  the  gospel,  in  the  United  States.  For  some 
reason  the  Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society  was  at 
first  overlooked  in  the  distribution  of  this  fund,  and  it  was 
not  until  1846  that  the  share  due  to  it,  amounting  to  $1,501.04, 
was  paid  over  with  interest  from  1821,  amounting  to  $1,724.78, 
making  in  all  $3,225.82,  leaving  after  the  payment  of  a  com- 
mission of  $50,  $3,175.82,  of  which  the  Convention  set  aside 
$3,000  to  be  a  part  of  its  invested  funds.  From  that  date 
the  fund  has  continued  to  grow.  A  memorandum  on  the 
inside  cover  of  the  treasurer's  book  shows  assets  in  June, 
1851,  of  $4,243.24,  to  which  was  added  in  the  same  year, 
from  the  estate  of  Prudence  Fanvell,  through  the  American 
Baptist  Missionary  Union,  $6,666.67,  making  in  all  $10,910.91. 

127 


128  HISTORICAL    NOTES 

In  1868  the  fund  had  reached  $18,866.66.  In  1869  it  was  in- 
creased by  $22,898  from  the  estate  of  Sarah  Bumstead,  carrying 
the  total  up  to  $42,873.56.  Sarah  Bumstead  died  March  21, 
1865,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-one  years,  leaving  a 
valuable  estate  on  Washington  Street,  Boston.  She  left  two 
wills,  one  made  in  1851,  another  in  1853,  and  a  codicil  made 
in  1857,  the  first  mainly  in  favor  of  the  Massachusetts  Bap- 
tist Convention,  and  the  second  largely  so.  The  will  of 
1853  and  the  codicil  were  allowed  pro-forma  in  the  Probate 
Court.  An  appeal  was  taken  by  the  heirs  to  the  Supreme 
Judicial  Court,  where  two  trials  were  had,  the  last  resulting 
adversely  to  the  will.  The  case  was  taken  to  the  full 
bench  of  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court,  where  a  new  trial  was 
ordered  (see  Shailer  v.  Bumstead  ct  al.  99  Mass.  112).  Pending 
the  new  trial  a  settlement  was  effected,  by  which  the  will 
was  set  aside  and  the  estate  was  conveyed  to  the  Convention 
by  the  heirs,  on  terms  sufficiently  favorable  to  increase  the 
fund  as  above.  For  this  favorable  result  the  Convention  was 
largely  indebted  to  Deacon  Asa  Wilbur  and  Deacon  Geo.  W. 
Chipman.  After  crediting  this  amount  to  the  fund,  the 
property,  with  a  small  adjoining  estate  subsequently  pur- 
chased, represented  an  investment  of  about  $144,000.  The 
estate  was  sold  Jan.  i,  1886,  to  Jason  S.  Bailey  for  $300,000, 
giving  the  Convention,  with  other  accessions  received  in  the 
meantime,  a  fund  of  $273,720.  Aid  rendered  to  churches  in 
building  houses  of  worship  reduced  the  fund  to  $163,094.44 
in  1896,  but  the  very  liberal  gifts  since  received  have  more 
than  filled  the  vacuum,  and  the  Convention  starts  on  its 
second  century  better  equipped  than  ever  for  the  great  work 
before  it. 

As  to  the  other  financial  data  a  nearly  complete  list  of 
the  legacies  and  gifts  is  appended.  To  make  it  absolutely 
complete  would  involve  an  amount  of  time  and  labor  which 
circumstances  do  not  now  permit. 

The  table  of  receipts  and  expenditures  is  intended  in  the 
main  to  show  the  amounts  received  and  paid  for  current 
expenses,  though  in  some  cases,  especially  in  the  earlier  years, 
legacies  are  included.  As  a  general  rule  in  the  later  years 
they  have  been  included  only  where  given  for  current  expenses. 


RECEIPTS    AND   DISBURSEMENTS 


Financial 
Year 


Donations 


1835-36 
183^37 
1837-38 
1838-39 
1839-40 

I 8 40-4 I 
1841-42 
1842-43 

1843-44 

1844-45 

1845-46 

i846t 

1846-47 

1847-48 

1848-49 

1849-50 

1850-51 

1851-52 

1852-53 

1853-54 

1854-55 

1855-56 

1856-57 

1857-58 

1858-59 

1859-60 

1860-61 

1861-62 

1862-63 

1863-64 

1864-65 

1865-66 

1866-67 

1867-68 

1868-69 

1869-70 

1870-71 

1871-72 

1872-73 

1873-74 

1874-75 

1875-76 

1876-77 

1877-78 

1878-79 

1879-80 


Income  of 

Invested 

Funds  and 

Rents,  net 


4,710.97 
3.511-15 
5.303-63 
5,454.98 
2,020.22 

1.777-44 
2,829.64 
1,629.16 

*5.6o9-37 
2,689.82 
1,984.70 
4,827.30 
3,264.48 

2,733-09 
3,810.07 

2,754-74 
3,283.71 
2,338-32 
3,261.32 

3. 1 1 5-96 
2,725.50 
2,988.97 
2,415.44 
2,360.32 
2,646.68 
2,278.51 

1,977-37 
1,741.06 
2,100.93 
2,950.69 
3.498.58 
6,87341 
6,779-94 
4,762.58 
6,392.49 
4,648.74 
7,107.29 
6,124.50 
7,147.86 
4,523-0 

4,501-75 
6,711.24 
4,087.31 
4,378.94 
3,849-78 
5.054-58 


1835-80  $177,537-55 


Total 


^191.36 
57-18 
96.18 
120.18 
66.18 
66.18 
66.18 
66.18 
32.00 
18.18 
48.00 
18.18 
138.10 

242.34 

244.00 

285.50 

218.25 

782.50 

693.88 

725.62 

865.50 

744.00 

744.00 

866.91 

796.00 

880.50 

854.84 

701.87 

830.00 

834.00 

476.12 

769.94 

967 .60 

600.57 

1,655.27 

18.71 

36-37 

3.223-33 

1,043.14 

3,788.72 

5.794-94 

4.030.33 

4,642.01 

3.658.26 

2,050.49 

3.595-7 


;  4,902.33 

3.568.33 
5,399.81 

5.575-16 
2,086.40 
1,843.62 
2,895.82 
1,695-34 

*5.64i-37 
2,708.00 
2,032.70 
4,845.48 
3.402.58 

2,975-43 
4,054.07 
3,040.24 
3,501.96 
3,120.82 
3.955-20 
3,841-58 
3,591.00 

3.732-97 
3.159-44 
3,227.23 
3,442.68 
3,159.01 
2,832.21 
2,442.93 

2,930-93 
3,784.69 
3.974-70 
7,643-35 
7.747-54 
5.363-15 
8,047.76 

4,667.4s 
7,143.66 

9.347-83 
8,191.00 

8,311.74 
10,296.69 
10,741-57 
8,729-32 
8,037.20 
5,900.27 
8,650.30 


Disburse- 
ments 


Amount  of 
Invested 
Funds  at 
end  of  Fi- 
nancial Year 


,645.31  $226,182.86 


$4,147.63 
3,882.00 
6,000.62 

5.435-37 
2,457.18 

1,773.58 
2,398.61 
1,822.68 
*5,69i.4i 
3,012.81 
2,165.04 
1,647.91 
3,100.62 
3,043.08 
4,181.59 
2,860.02 

3.511-14 

1,829.78 
3,886.76 
3,476.88 

3,541-59 
3,708 

3.571-96 
2,687.71 
3,655-53 
3.035-92 
2,790-31 
2,649,96 
2,892.19 
3,215-67 
3.962.77 
5,888.79 
7,624"" 

5,094-83 
7,041.07 

5.085-34 
6,59901 
6,271.21 
8,032.11 
7,887.15 
7,834-50 
8,683.30 
9,306.68 

8,853-52 
6,566.44 

7.548-59 


$3,200.00 


$210,353.95 


1,100.00 


4,000.00 


12,500.00 
12,766.66 


18,409.66 
17,866.66 
18,866.66 
42,873.56 


*  Includin-  $2,227.57  received  and  paid  nut  on  account  of  the  Home  Mission 
Society.  Tl?e  figures  for  I835-39-  inclusive,  also  include  receipts  and  disbursement 
on  account  of  the  Home  Mission  Society.  ,    ,  .     ., 

t  May-Oct.     Financial  year  had  previously  ended  in  JMay. 
129 


RECEIPTS.     1880-1902 


Financial  Year 

Donations 

From    Invested 
Funds  and  Rents 

Total 

1880-81 

$  6,741.97 

$  4,217-21 

$10,959.18 

1881-82 

4,802.00 

4,982.12 

9,784.12 

1882-83 

4,965.87 

10,022.68 

14,988.55 

1883-84 

5>56o.37 

10,259.03 

15,819.40 

1884-85 

4,869.49 

10,828.89 

15,698-38 

1885-86 

4,586.50 

8,977-98 

13,564.48 

1886-87 

8,339.66 

11,144.72 

19,484.38 

1887-88 

8,020.07 

11,932-34 

19,952.41 

1888-89 

6,871.53 

11,511.45 

18,382.98 

1889-90 

7,141.27 

12,634.91 

19,776.18 

1890-91 

7,136.82 

10,354.90 

17,491.72 

1891-92 

6,644.34 

9,598.83 

16,243.17 

1892-93 

7,006.16 

9,128.85 

16,135.01 

1893-94 

9.383-30 

6,126.11 

15,509.41 

1894-95 

12,326.04 

9,053-76 

21,379.80 

1895-96 

15,278.11 

8,387.98 

23,666.09 

1896-97 

12,291.62 

8,519.84 

20,811.46 

1897-98 

12,066.75 

10,047.36 

22,114.11 

1898-99 

II. 19345 

8,368.98 

19,562.43 

1899-1900 

13,952.42 

8,276.06 

22,228.48 

1900-01 

10,609.72 

10,098.55 

20,708.27 

1901-02 

12,174.90 

11,330.00 

23,504.90 

Total  1880-02 

$191,962.36 

$205,802.55 

$397,764-91 

DISBURSEMENTS.     1880-1902 


Financial  Year 

Church     Building 

Other  Expenses 

Total 

1880-81 

$   3,782.65 

$  6.556.19 

$10,338.84 

1881-82 

873.00 

7,604.69 

8,477.69 

1882-83 

4,248.30 

7,496.22 

11,744.52 

1883-84 

7,032.00 

7,963.56 

14,995-56 

1884-85 

7,822.15 

9,605.52 

17,427.67 

1885-86 

6,684.00 

12,279.52 

18,963.52 

1886-87 

5,044.90 

14,890.25 

19,935-15 

1887-88 

8,132.81 

15,054-31 

23,187.12 

1888-89 

13,183.00 

16,899.59 

30,082.59 

1 889-90 

25,806.75 

18,612.89 

44,419.64 

1890-91 

10.398.10 

18,732.47 

29,130-57 

1891-92 

8,985.91 

20,209.73 

29,195.64 

1892-93 

21,445.81 

22,623.40 

44,069.21 

1893-94 

11,986.00 

25,139-67 

37,125-67 

1894-95 

1,834.00 

20,270.13 

22,104.13 

1895-96 

2,150.00 

21,032.45 

23,182.45 

1896-97 

3,390-00 

20,701.79 

24,091.79 

1897-98 

3,375-00 

22,242.78 

25,617.78 

1898-99 

500.00 

18,484.91 

18,984.91 

I 899- I 900 

2,700.00 

24,024.71 

26,724.71 

1900-01 

18,482.87 

18,482.87 

1901-02 

1,725.00 

23,598.01 

25,323.01 

Total  1880-02 

$151,099.38 

1372,505.86 

$523,60504 

130 


HISTORICAL   NOTES 


131 


Receipts  of  Massachusetts  Baptist  Mis 

sionary  Society 
Receipts  of  Massachusetts  Baptist  Con 

vention  ..... 
Receipts  of  Massachusetts  Baptist  Con 

vention  ..... 
Receipts  of  Massachusetts  Baptist  Con 

vention 

Total  100  years, 

Disbursements  of  the  two  societies 
Disbursements    of    the   Massachusetts 

Baptist  Convention 
Disbursements    of    the    Massachusetts 

Baptist  Convention 


Church  Building, 


Total  for  Church  Building  from  In- 
vested Funds  of  Convention 

Total  for  Church  Building  from  Royce 
Fund 

Total  for  Church  Building  from  Mercy 
Blaney  Fund 


1802-35  about 
1824-35  about 
1835-80 
1880-1902 

1802-35  about 
1835-80 
I 880- I 902* 


5  70,000.00 

20,000.00 

226,182.86 

397,764.91 

S7I3-94777 

\  90,000.00 

210,353-95 
372,505.86 

^672,859.81 
151,099.38 

J?823,959.i9 


1880-1902         ^151,099.38 
1 880-1 902  18,500.00 

1880-1902  16,336.14 


^185,935.52 


INVESTED    FUNDS    {net) 
I 886- I 902 


1886 

$273,720.00 

1895 

$165,516.34 

1887 

275,220.00 

1896 

163,094.44 

1888 

272,220.00 

1897 

177,011.44 

1889 

261,020.00 

1898 

196,768.16 

1890 

248,720.00 

1899 

203,289.69 

I89I 

238,620.00 

1900 

205,713.61 

1892 

222,645.00 

I90I 

255.236-99 

1893 

204,320.00 

1902 

280,572.37 

1894 

167,218.24 

*  Receipts  on  account  of  Investable  Funds  not  included. 


132 


HISTORICAL   NOTES 


A    NEARLY    COMPLETE    LIST    OF     LEGACIES    GIVEN 
TO   THE    MASSACHUSETTS   BAPTIST   CONVENTION 


1843-44     Nicholas  Brown     . 
J.  W.  Tolman 

1843-44     Nicholas  Brown     . 

Rev.  Zephania  Edes  estate 

1844-45     Nicholas  Brown  estate  . 
1845-46     Nicholas   Brown  estate,  4th 
ment .... 
Miss  Elizabeth  Heath  estate 


pay 


1846  Nicholas   Brown  estate,  5th  pay 

ment 

Thompson  Baxter  estate 

1846-47     John  Perry  estate  . 
1847-48     Joseph  Woodcock  estate 

Nicholas  Brown  estate,  6th  pay 
ment 

1848-49     Nicholas  Brown  estate,  7th  pay- 
ment ..... 
Hannah  Carleton  . 
Sarah  Smith  .... 

1849-50     Nicholas   Brown  estate,  8th  pay 
ment  ..... 
Jonas  Taylor  estate 

1850-51     Nicholas  Brown  estate,  9th  pay 

ment 

American  Baptist  Missionary 
Union,  Prudence  Far  well 
legacy*      .         .         .         .         . 

1851-52     Nicholas  Brown  estate,  loth  and 
last  payment       .... 
Mary  Houghton  estate  . 


%    300.00 
381-51 


%        681.51 


300.00 
300.00 


300.00 
50.00 


300.00 


300.00 
810.42 


600.00 
300.00 


350.00 


350.00 

3.475-82 
116.35 

300.00 

650.00 

300.00 

500.00 

60.00 

860.00 

300.00 
12.50 

312.50 

300.00 

6,666.67 

6,966.67 


1,110.42 


*  Mrs.  Farwell  devised  a  large  amount  of  real  estate  to  the  Missionary  Union  on 
the  trust  that  it  pay  to  the  Convention  J5400  per  annum.  By  an  arrangement  made 
between  the  two  societies  the  Missionary  Union  paid  over  the  above  sum  of 
$6,666.67,  which  it  was  estimated  would  yield  at  6  per  cent,  per  annum  an  amount 
equal  to  the  annuity  of  f  400. 


HISTORICAL  NOTES 


1856-57     Elizabeth  Hovey   . 
1857-58     Eleanor  B.  Willard  estate 
J.  W.  Ford    . 

1858-59     Thomas  Baldwin  estate 
1863-64     Mrs.  A.  Coombs  estate 
1864-65     Mrs.  A.  Coombs  estate 
1865-66     Mary  A.  N.  Swaim  estate 
Susan  Tripp  estate 

1866-67     Mrs.  Susan  Tucker  estate 
1867-68     George  Babcock  estate 
1868-69     Sarah  Bumstead  estate 

Mrs.  Susan  Nelson  estate 


1872-73     Levi  Conant  estate 
1873-74     Joel  Merriam  estate 
1874-75     Levi  Conant  estate 
Moses  Briggs  estate 


1875-76 


1876-77 


Susan  Tripp  estate 
Hannah  Locke  estate 
Moses  Briggs  estate 

Desire  Crowell  estate 
Moses  Briggs  estate 
John  T.  Bachellor  estate 
Margaret  Wallis  estate 
Moses  Briggs  estate 


1877-78 
1878-79 
1880-81 
1881-82 


1882-83 


Moses  Briggs  estate 
Sarah  Chace  estate 
John  Putnam  estate 
Susan  Hinckley  estate  . 
George  Cummings  estate 

Lavinia  Barker  estate  . 
L.  R.  B.  Fry  estate 
Mary  Penniman  estate  . 
Celia    M.   Magoon   for    Ambrose 
Magoon  fund     . 

1883-84  Gardner  Colby  estate  . 
1884-85  Mercy  Blaney  estate  . 
1885-86    Elvira  C.  Messenger  estate 

H.  L.  Eldridge  estate    . 

Rev.  Andrew  Pollard  estate 

Mercy  Blaney  estate 


$    icc.oo 
loo.oc 


500.00 
500.00 


22,898.00 
714.15 


500.00 
2,000.00 


113.02 
1 50.00 
800.00 

50.00 

700.00 

161.72 

1,000.00 

170.50 


400.00 
1,000.00 

100.00 

1,000.00 

500.00 

1,000.00 


230.00 

12.50 

75.00 

i3'336-i4 


1,000.00 


200.00 
200.00 
427-50 
427-50 


1,000.00 

500.00 

1,000.00 


23,612.15 

500.00 

1,000.00 


2,500.00 


1,063.02 


2,082.22 
100.00 
200.00 
200.00 


1 ,400.00 


2,600.00 

10,000.00 

3,300.00 


i3'653-64 


134 


HISTORICAL   NOTES 


1886-87 
1887-88 


1889-90 

1891-92 

1892-93 

1893-94 
1894-95 

1895-96 


Harriet  N.  Foster  estate 
Mary  Crowell  estate 
Susan  Fiske  estate 
Elizabeth  N.  Chase  estate     . 
Benjamin  Millet  etsate  . 
Eliza  A.  Harding,  $\f>0Q  railroad 
bond  ..... 

Samuel  Hill  estate 

J.  Warren  Merrill  estate 

William  B.  Owen  estate 

Sarah  Carver  Church  estate 
Lucy  Church  estate 

Thomas  Nickerson  estate 
Sarah  P.  Brigham  estate 


5  165.14 
672.75 

1,000.00 
386.31 

1,600.00 


1,000.00 
500.00 

2,000.00 
500.00 


Emmons    Raymond    Fund,   for   benefit    of 

Shutesbury  Baptist  Church 
Ellen  R.  Dubois  estate . 
Abigail  C.  Parker  estate 
Henry  R.  Glover  estate 


Elizabeth  Blackington  estate 
Ellen  R.  Dubois  estate  . 
Abigail  C.  Parker  estate 
I.  C.  Plummer  estate 


1896-97     Abigail  C.  Parker  estate 
1897-98     Harriet  M.  Buss  estate  . 

Harriet  N.  Flint  estate  . 

Abigail  C.  Parker  estate 

1898-99     Amira  Sherman     . 

1 899-1 900     D.  Amidown  estate    . 

Laura  A.  Day  estate 

Rev.  J.  C.  Foster,  D.  D.,  estate 

H.  B.  B.  estate 

Nathan  W.  Harris  estate 

1900-01     Rev.  J.  C.  Foster,  D.  D.,  estate 
A.  D.  Francis  estate 
Daniel  S.  Ford  estate    . 
John  A.  Root  estate 

1901-02  R.  H.  Cole  estate. 
M.  R.  Lucas  estate 
Rev.  J.  C.  Foster,  D.  D.,  estate 


2,000.00 

1,058.91 

150.00 

509.42 


350.00 
5,000.00 
1,285.71 


500.00 
200.00 

2,800.00 
50.00 

1,000.00 

877.84 

500.00 

45.77778 

1,000.00 


%       933-77 

3,824.20 

9,000.00 

1,500.00 

2,500.00 
5,000.00 

3,100.00 


3.618.33 

3,050.00 


6,635.71 
200.00 


4,550.00 


48,155.62 

200.00 

250.00 

17.26 


HISTORICAL   NOTES 


135 


H.  M.  Buss  estate 
Daniel  S.  Ford  estate 


$    100.00 
24.833-33 


Add  the  following  of  unknown  date : 
Charles  Davis 
EUzabeth  Cummings     . 
Drufy  Fund  . 
Benjamin  Porter    . 


Total  legacies         .... 
Of  the  foregoing  legacies  paid  by  instalments  the  totals 
are  as  follows : 

Nicholas  Brown  in  all  .         •         •  $3,000.00 


Less     paid 
Society 


to     Home 


Mrs.  A.  Coombs 
Levi  Conant . 
Moses  Briggs 
Mercy  Blaney 
Ellen  R.  Dubois 
Susan  Tripp  . 
J.  C.  Foster  . 
H.  M.  Buss    . 
Abigail  C.  Parker 
Daniel  S.  Ford 


Mission 


2,000.00 


$  25,400.59 

1199,857.52 

500.00 
500.00 

I  GO. 00 
500.00 

$201,457.52 


$    1,000.00 

855.00 

1,000.00 

3-770.50 
*  16.336.14 

2,058.91 
613.02 

3,695.10 

450.00 

4,485.71 

70,611.11 


GIFTS    MADE   BY    DONORS   IN   THEIR   LIFETIME 


Barnabas  D.  Capen,  about    .         .         • 
1802-93     E.  C.  Hewitt  for  Lavina  Hewitt  Fund 
1894-95     J-  F-  Clark  (King  Fund)        .         ■  $    500.00 

Marcus  A.  Gates  .         .         •         ■     2,000.00 

iSqi^-qe     E.     C.    Hewitt    (Lavina    Hewitt 

^^               Fund) 500.00 

Joel  Proctor 1,000.00 

Charles  Chase       .         .         •        •  1.200,00 


1,000.00 
25,000.00 


$24,660.00 
500.00 

2,500.00 


1897-98     Rowena  W.  Leland  Fund     . 
Chester  W.  Kingsley    . 

1898-99     A.  K.  Hawkes 

»  Given  for  Milton  Lower  Falls  Church  Building  Fund. 


2,700.00 

26,000.00 
1 ,000  00 


136  HISTORICAL   NOTES 

1899-1900     Henry  A.  Pevear       .         .         .  $3,000.00 

F.  M.  D 2,500.00 

$     5,500.00 

1901-02     Mrs.  Selina  N.  Rice      .....  500.00 


$  63,360.00 
Add  legacies 201,457.52 


Grand  total ;5S264,8i7.52 


Pastors   of  Baptist   Churches   in 
Massachusetts 

1 802-1 902 

The  following  list  is  probably  incomplete  and  otherwise 
imperfect.  During  the  earlier  part  of  the  century  many  Bap- 
tist churches  were  not  connected  with  any  Associations,  and 
made  no  reports.  The  statistical  tables  of  Associations  — 
from  which  this  list  has  been  largely  made  —  probably  contain 
errors  both  in  names  and  dates.  Much  labor  has  been 
bestowed  upon  it,  but  imperfections  will  probably  be  dis- 
covered.   All  degrees  are  omitted. 

Abar,  Edward  J.    Westminster,  1902-  ..,_.^.   ^^^„_ 

Abbott,  Granville  Sharp.    Boston,  South,  1863-69,    Water- 

Abbott^^Tames  Per'cival.    Medford,  First,  i877— 98- 

AbboS    Levi    Augustus.      Milford,    1855-58;     Weymouth, 

18^8—62:     Middleboro,    Central,    1862—68. 
Abbott    Samuel.     Middleboro,   Fourth    (extinct),   1804-07, 

Middleboro,  First,  1807-17;    Chester  (now  Huntmgton), 

Abbo^^'^Stephen     G.       Wollaston,     1872-73;      Needham, 

1873—77 ;    Stamford,  Vt.,   1878—80. 
Abrams    Lyman   H.     Somerville,  Broadway,   1881. 
aITus      Alfred     Windham.       Boston,     Twelfth     (acting). 

Tgne— 07;    West   Newton.   Myrtle,    1900—01 
Adam?  P?UL  S.    South  Reading  (now  Wakefield),  1845-49; 

Newburyport,   1849-51;    ?^°'e^^^°T'T8^^fi^"  Dnrches- 
Adams,  Robert  John.    Holyoke,  Second,  1869-86,   Dorches 

ter    Stoughton  Street,   1886— 93-       „^  ,.      o  .     o^. 

Adlam    Samuel.    West  Dedham  (now  Westwood)    1824-27 . 

Marblehead.      1827-30,      1833-34;       Gloucester,      tirst, 

1830—33- 

137 


138  PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Alden,  John,  Jr.    Shelburne  Falls,  1833—40;    North  Adams, 

1840—46;  Fayville,  1846—48;  Westfield,  Central,  1848—53; 

Chesterfield,  1859—60. 
Alden,    William    Harrison.      North    Attleboro,    1852 — 57; 

Lowell,    First,    1857—64;    Westboro    (acting),    1891—95; 

Sharon    (acting),  1896--98. 
Aldrich,    Jonathan.      West     Dedham     (now     Westwood), 

1828 — 30 ;    Beverly,  First,   1830 — 2>2. ;    Cambridge,  Second, 

1832 — 34;      Worcester,     First,     1834 — 2>T,      Newburyport, 

1838 — 40;     Framingham,    First,    1846 — 50;     Middleboro, 

Central,    1850—53. 
Aldrich,  Justus.     Wales,    1862 — 66;    Becket,    1866 — 68. 
Aldrich,   Thomas.     Deerfield    (extinct),    1837 — ^41. 
Alger,     Isaac.       Pondville,     1869 — 72,     1879—82;      Pocasset, 

1872—73;     Gay    Head,    1873—75;     Florida,    1877—78. 
Alger,   Roland   F.     Hinsdale,    1877—79 ;     Becket,    1879—91 ; 

Nantucket,    Summer   Street,    1898— 1901. 
Allard,  Samuel  R.     Wales,  1848 — 50. 

Allen,  Charles  W.     Newton,  Second,  1899 — 1900;    Middle- 
boro, Third   (Rock),  1900 — 
Allen,    George    H.      Chelmsford,     First,     1866 — Tz;     Ayer, 

1873—80. 
Allen,  Isaac  N.    Halifax  (extinct),  1886 — 87;    Quincy  Point 

(extinct),     1887—88;      Florida,     1888—^0;      Gay     Head, 

1890 — 94. 
Allen,    John.      Wrentham    (extinct),    1824 — 27;     Kingston, 

1827 — 38;  Seekonk  (extinct),  1839 — 40;  Sterling,  1842 — 44; 

Mansfield,   1846 — 49;    Groton,   1850 — 53. 
Allen,     Thomas     U.       New     Bedford,     Second     (extinct), 

1846—48. 
Allton,  Wilbur   F.     Attleboro,   First,   1902 — 
Alton,  A.  E.     Holden,  1902 — 
Ambler,  John  V.     Lanesboro,   1837 — 56. 
Ames,  Lucius.     Colerain,  First,   1858—62. 
Ames,  W.  W.    Greenfield,  First,  1856—59;    Ashland,  1860—61. 
Amos,   Joseph.     Nantucket,   Summer   Street,    1839 — 40;    Gay 

Head,  1842 — 47. 
Amsden,  S.  H.     Ashfield,  1854—56. 
Anable.    Charles    W.      Cambridge,    Old,    1863—71 ;     North 

Adams,   1872—77;    Springfield,   First,    1877—82;    Adams, 

1883—90. 
Andem,  James.     Middleboro,  First,  1847—49;    North  Bridge- 
water   (extinct),   1850 — 52;Raynham,  1855 — 57- 
Anderson,    Charles    William.      Worcester,    First    Swede, 

1898— 
Anderson,  Edward  Coffin.     Groveland   (extinct),   1872 — T2>'^ 

Petersham,  1873 — 75. 
Anderson,  Galusha.     Salem,  First,  1885 — 87. 
Anderson,   Samuel   Duff.     Billerica,    First,    1894 — 97. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  I  39 

Anderson,  Thomas  Davis.     Salem,  First,  1841 — 48;    Boston, 

Dudley  Street,  1848—62;  Boston,  South,  1880—83. 
Andrews,  E.  A.  Boston,  Bowdoin  Square,  1876 — jy. 
Andrews,  Elisha.    Templeton  (now  Baldwinville),  1802 — 23, 

1828—30;      Princeton     (extinct),     1824;      Princeton    and 

Leominster,      1825 — 26;       Shelburne,      First       (extinct), 

1836—37. 
Andrews,   Elisha    Benjamin.     Beverly,   First,   1874 — 75- 
Andrews,  Erastus.    West  Springfield,  First  (now  Agawam), 

1830 — 2>^;    Sunderland  and  Montague,  1832 — 38,  1845 — 57; 

Bernardston,    1840 — 42;     Deerfield     (extinct),     1861 — 62; 

Montague,    1862—65. 
Andrews,  Neil,  Jr.     Shelburne  Falls,   1895 — 99!    East  Lynn, 

1899 — 1901. 
Angell,   George.     Southbridge,  First    (extinct),   1817 — 27. 
Applegarth,  Edward  Carey.     Boston,  Elm  Hill,   1898 — 
Applegarth,  Henry  C.     Cambridge,   First,   1900 — 
Appleton,  J.  P.     Mansfield,  1844 — 46. 
Apsey,   William    S.     Cambridge,    North   Avenue,    1868 — 94; 

Reading,  1895 — 98. 
Archer,  William.     Woodville,  1854 — 55- 
Archibald,  Henry.     Shrewsbury   (extinct)   and  West  Boyls- 

ton,  1824 — 26;    Belchertown,  1828 — 30;    West  Springfield, 

Second     (now    Holyoke,    First),    1830 — 33;     Middlefield, 

1833—35;    Wenham,   1837—39- 
Armstrong,  William  Frederick.     Roslindale,  1881 — 82. 
Arnold,  Albert  Nicholas.     Newburyport,   1841 — 43 ;    West- 

boro,  1857 — 64. 
Arry,  Karl.     Worcester,  Finn,  1901 — 
Arvine,  Kazlitt.    West  Boylston,  1849 — 51. 
Ashley,  Andrew  W.     South  Yarmouth,  i860 — 62;    Swansea, 

1864—68;    North  Reading,  1868—71. 
Ashley,  Freeman  B.    Osterville,  1856 — 59;   Sharon,  1859—64. 
Ashley,    John    Fletcher.     Templeton    (now   Baldwinville), 

1858—61 ;    North  Attleboro,  1861—62. 
Ashley,  R.  K.    North  Bridgewater  (extinct),  1852 — 54;  Gard- 
ner,  1854 — 60. 
Ashley,  Samuel  D.    Becket.  1871 — 75 ;  Huntington,  1875 — 78 ; 

Huntington  and  Russell,   1878—84;    Merrimac,   1885 — 91; 

^lillbury,    1891—^8. 
Ashley,  William   W.     Barnstable,   Third,    1857—58;    West 

Harwich,     1858—59;     Winchendon,     1859 — 61,     1869—70; 

Edgartown,  1861—62,  1866 — 67. 
Atchley,   William   A.     South    Framingham,    1901 — 
Atha,   George  Richard.     Fall  River,  Third,   1898 — 1902. 
Athearn,    William    Davis.      Ashfield,    1880 — 81 ;     Spencer, 

1883—85;    Dighton,  1891 — 96;    Woodville,  1896— 1901. 
Atherton,  Winthrop  L.     West  Springfield.  1902 — 
Atkinson,  George  O.     Sterling,  1869 — 70. 


I40  PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Atwell,    George    Benjamin.      East    Longmeadow,    1822 — 25. 

Atwood,  Thomas.  Raynham,  i860 — 62;  Shirley,  1870 — 72; 
North  Tisbury,   1873 — 74. 

Austin,  Linus.  Bernardston,  1826 — 27;  Florida,  1828 — 30; 
Hardwick  and  Ware  (extinct),  1830;  Holland  (extinct), 
1830 — :i2 ;    Shutesbury,   1832 — 35. 

AvERiLL,  Alexander  McCormick.  Cambridge,  North  Avenue, 
1853 — 59;  Middleboro,  Central,  1859 — 62;  Holyoke,  Sec- 
ond, 1862—68. 

Avery,  David.  Tyringham,  1851 — 52;  Stamford,  Vt.,  1852 — 55; 
Southwick,  1855 — 57;  Leverett  and  Montague,  1857 — 59; 
Barre,   1859 — 62;    Sutton,  First,   1862 — 63. 

Avery,  J.  H.    Danvers,  1842 — 44 ;   Barnstable,  Third,  1846 — 47. 

Axtell,  Seth  Jones.  West  Medway,  1870 — 78;  Weymouth, 
1883—88. 

Ayer,  Charles.  Fayville,  1856 — 59;  Athol,  1861 — 63;  Ster- 
ling, 1863—65. 

Ayer,  Oliver.  Littleton,  1838 — 44;  Groton,  1866 — y:^;  North 
Oxford,   1874 — 80. 

Ayer,  William  Oliver.  Everett,  1884 — 90;  Brockton,  Warren 
Avenue,  1893 — 

Ayers,  William  Sullivan.  Lowell,  Worthen  Street,  1885 — 91 ; 
Westfield,  Central,  1900 — 

Babbitt,  George  F.    Westboro,  1886 — 90;  Amesbury,  1892 — 98. 

Babcock,  a.     Holland  (extinct),  1843 — 46. 

Babcock,  Rufus,  Jr.     Salem,  First,  1827 — 33 ;    New  Bedford, 

First,  1846^—50. 
Backus,  Isaac.     Middleboro,  First,  — 1802 — 06. 
Bacon,  Albert  M.     Waltham,  First,  1867 — 69. 
Bacon,  Francis   Sheldon.     Hudson,   1878 — 87;    Marblehead, 

1887—91. 
Bacon,  Joel  Smith.     Lynn,  First,  1837 — 40. 
Bailey,   Charles  Reuben.     North  Oxford,   1889 — 92. 
Bailey,  J.  A.     Edgartown,  1888. 
Bailey,  Nathan.  West  Newbury  and  Merrimacport  (extinct), 

1887—88;    Dorchester,  First,   1889—91;    Methuen,   1892— 

1902;    Peabody,  1902 — 
Bailey,  S.     Westboro,   1846. 

Bailey,  Timothy.     Princeton   (extinct),  1849 — 50. 
Bakeman,  Francis  Wales.    Newburyport,  1869 — 71 ;  Worces- 
ter, Main  Street,  1873—76;    Chelsea,  First.  1884— 
Baker,    C.    L.      Colerain,    Second,    1847 — 48;     Bernardston, 

1853;     New    Salem    and    Prescott     (extinct),    1854 — 55; 

Three  Rivers,  1855 — 57;    Savoy,  First,  1857—60;    Sutton, 

First,  1863. 
Baker,  George  R.    Leominster,  1902 — 
Baker,  Henry  Varnum.     Charlemont,  1873 — yy. 
Baker,  Luther.     Warren,   1802 — 14. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  I4I 

Balcom,  Jonas  Haddon.     Rehoboth,  1891 — 93 ;    Baldwinville, 

1893-98. 
Baldwin,    Albert.      North    Wrentham    (extinct),    1848 — 50; 

Winchendon,  1853 — 56. 
Baldwin,  Charles  Jacob.     Chelsea,  First,  1868 — 74. 
Baldwin,   George   Colfax,   Jr.     Springfield,   First,    1885 — 99. 
Baldwin,  Henry  F.     Adams,  183 1. 
Baldwin,  Thomas.     Boston,  Second  (now  Warren  Avenue), 

— 1802 — 05. 
Ball,  Albert  H.    Greenfield,  First,  1870 — 72;   Westboro,  1882. 
Ball,  Eli.    West  Springfield,  First  (now  Agawam),  1817 — 18. 
Ball,  Harvey.     Hingham,   1828 — 30. 
Ball,     Mason.       Amherst,     1834 — 36;      Princeton     (extinct), 

1837 — 40;     Amherst,    1846—48;     Royalston    Centre    (ex- 
tinct), 1850;    South  Hanson.  1863. 
Ballard,  John  B.     Dudley    (extinct),   1825 — 26. 
Ballard,    Joseph,    Jr.      Medfield,    1824 — ^28;     Lowell,    First, 

1839—46. 
Banvard,   Joseph.     Salem,   Central,    1835 — 46;    Boston,   Har- 
vard Street,  1846 — 51 ;    West  Cambridge  (now  Arlington), 

1851 — 53;    Dorchester,   First,    1876 — 83. 
Barber,   Joseph.      Brewster,    1861 ;     Sutton,    First,    1864 — 65 ; 

North     Uxbridge,     1865—68;      Bolton,     1868—71;      West 

Bridgewater,  1871 — 76;    Westminster,  1876 — 80;    Fayville, 

1883—85;    Middleboro,  Third,  1888—92. 
Barbour,   E.   D.     Colerain,   First,    1870. 
Barbour,  Thomas  S.     Fall  River,  First,  1883 — 95;   Brookline, 

1896—98. 
Barlow,  Joseph   Lorenzo.     Sandisfield,   1852 — 56. 
Barnaby,  James.   West  Harwich,  181 1 — 17,  1838 — 44,  1849 — 54. 

1862 — 76;    New  Bedford,  First,   1819 — 2Z\    Salisbury  and 

Amesbury,  1824 — 25;    Danvers,  1830 — 32;   Lowell,  Second, 

1832 — 34;       West      Townsend,      1836 — 37;       Nantucket, 

1845 — 46;    Newburyport,  1855 — 56. 
Barnes,  Horace  Franklin.     Winchester,  1874 — 81 ;    assistant 

pastor,  Tremont  Temple,   Boston,    1896--98. 
Barnes.  Lemuel  Call.    Newton  Centre,  1887 — 93 ;  Worcester, 

First,   1902 — 
Barnes,   William    Sullivan.     Melrose,   First,    1864 — 68. 
Barrelle,     Allen.       Melrose,     First,     1871 — 74;      Rockland, 

1879—81. 
Barrett,  Luther  Gustavus.    Weston,  1867 — 70;    Winchester, 

1870 — 74;     South    Abington    (now    Whitman),    1878 — 80; 

Lowell,    Fifth    Street.    1888—91;     Milford,    1891—93. 
Barrett,     Thomas.       Grafton,      First,      1816—20;       Sharon, 

1820 — 22;      West     Springfield,     First     (now     Agawam), 

1824 — 28;    Dudley  (extinct),  1830. 
Barrows,  B.  W.     Dorchester,  First,  1855 — TZ. 


142  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Barrows,  Comfort  Edwin.  South  Danvers  (now  Peabody), 
1861—65. 

Barrows,  John  Harris.  Marblehead,  1875 — 78;  Boston, 
South,  1878—79;    Marlboro,  1880— «3. 

Barrows,  William  Carey.  Wahham,  First,  1872 — 75;  Rock- 
land, 1887 — 91 ;  Woburn,  First,  1892 — 97 ;  Somerville, 
First   (acting),  1897 — 98. 

Barter,  A.  D.  Charlemont  and  Rowe,  1893 — 95;  Rowe, 
1895—97;     Savoy,    1897—99. 

Bartlett,  E.  M.  West  Amesbury  (now  Merrimac),  1872 — y6; 
Athol,  1876—81 ;  Holyoke,  First,  1881— 91 ;  West  Bridge- 
water,  1894 — 96. 

Bartlett,  Francis  J.  Southwick,  1881 — 83,  Grafton,  First, 
1883—89. 

Bartlett,  Hartnell  John.  Ashland,  1896;  Ashland  and 
Fayville,  1897 — 98. 

Bartlett,  Joseph  Frederick.  Somerville,  Broadway  (Winter 
Hill),   1885—88. 

Bartlett,  Walter  Reynolds.     Avon,   1900 — 

Bartlett,  William  Porter.  Lexington,  1883 — 84;  North 
Oxford,  1892 — 93 ;  Manchaug  and  Second,  Sutton, 
1893-98. 

Bary,  Emil  Benjamin.     Newton,  Second,   1883 — 84. 

Baskwell,  J.  A.     Swansea,  1868 — 70;    South  Yarmouth,  1870. 

Basten,    William    Frederick.      Mansfield,    1884 — 90. 

Bastow,  Jonathan.     Natick,  1887—92. 

Batchelder,  Frederick  Lyman.   East  Longmeadow,  1843 — 45; 

1852-53- 

Batchelder,  William.     Haverhill,  First,   1805 — 18. 

Batchelder,  William.  Sutton,  Second,  1802 — 17. 

Batchelor,  Matthew.  West  Springfield,  First  (now  Aga- 
wam),    1838 — 40. 

Bates,  Barnabas.    Barnstable,  1808 — 14. 

Bates,  Welcome  E.     Haverhill,   Portland  Street,   1888 — 97. 

Batson,  T.  a.     Turner's  Falls,  1880—88. 

Battelle,  Allen  Eleazer.  Marshfield,  First,  1852 — 55 ;  Rock- 
port,  1855 — 56;  West  Townsend,  1858^0;  Middleboro, 
Third,    1860—63. 

Baumes,   John   Ross.     Westfield,    Central,    1859 — 61. 

Beach,  Augustus.  Lanesboro  and  Pittsfield,  1822 — 26;  Pitts- 
field,  1827—37. 

Beaman,  Herbert  Henry.  West  Bridgewater,  1876 — 80; 
North  Oxford,  1880—81. 

Beckley,  John  T.  Boston,  First  (associate  pastor),  1871 — 76; 
Newburyport,    1877 — 83. 

Beecher,  George  Fletcher.  Middleboro,  First,  1897 — 99; 
Gloucester,  Chapel   Street,   1900 — 

Beecher,  Luther  F.     Charlestown,  Bunker  Hill,   1867 — 68' 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 43 

Belcher,  James.    Boston,  Baldwin  Place  (now  Warren  Ave.), 

1858—61. 
Belknap,  Appleton.     Holden,  1832 — 34. 
Belknap,  Arthur  Train.     Andover,   1900 — 
Bellamy,  Francis  J.     Boston,  Bethany,  1885 — 90. 
Bellamy,  Rufus  King.     Chicopee,  First,   1848—81. 
Bender,  J.  F.    Sandisfield,  1878—81. 
Benedict,    A.     N.      New    INIarlboro,     1847 — 50;     Southfield, 

1879—84;  New  Marlboro,  1884—96. 
Benedict,   Thomas.     West   Stockbridge    (extinct),   1849 — 60. 
Bennett,  Albert  Arnold.     Holliston,  1875 — 79;  Maplewood, 

1893 — 1901. 
Bennett,  Alvin.  Wilbraham  and  Monson  (extinct),  1824 — 35; 

East  Longmeadow,  1842 ;    Monson,  1845 — 46. 
Bennett,   George  Steadman.     North  Easton,   1900 — 01. 
Bennett,  Jonas  G.     Warwick,  1856. 
Bennett,  Robert.     Needham,  1868—70;    Egremont,  1870 — J2, 

1877 — 84;    East  Granville,  1884 — 86;    Ashland,   1894 — 9^; 

Beverly  Farms,  1896 — 97 ;    Hyannis,  1899 — 1900. 
Benson,  A.   F.     Weston.   1870 — 72,. 
Benson,  Caleb.     Dartmouth    (extinct),    1832 — 2>7'>    Sandwich 

(extinct),  1838;    Halifax  (extinct),  1841,  1849 — 52;    West 

Bridgewater,     1842 — 44;      Goshen      (extinct),     1846 — 47; 

Hanover,  1853. 
Bentley,   Henry   Dugwell.     Northboro,    1893 — 95 ;     Monroe 

(acting),  1898. 
Bentley,  William.     Maiden,   First,   1808;    Worcester,   First, 

1812 — 15. 
Benton,  G.  W.     Sutton,  First,   1849 — 50. 
Berry,    Philip.      Sutton,    Second,     1873 — 75 ;     Belchertown, 

1875 — 77 'y    Palmer  and  Three  Rivers,   1877. 
Bessey,  O.  Parker.    Brewster.  1873 — 75;  Rehoboth,  1875 — 77; 

West  Dedham  (now  Westwood),  1885 — 90. 
Bestor,    Foronda.      Westfield.    Central,    1841 ;     Westfield    and 

Russell,      1842;       Middlefield,      1843—48;       Chesterfield, 

1848^—53;       East      Longmeadow,      1853 — 56;       Cheshire, 

1858 — 64;     Egremont,    1864 — 70. 
Betts,  Platt.     Williamstown,  1839 — 42;    Hancock,  1842 — 43. 
Bezanson,   William    Byron.     South   Yarmouth,    1897 — 98. 
Bickford,  Augustus  Alvan.     Chelmsford,  First,  1887 — 99. 
BiCKFORD,  Francis  Sargent.     West  Townsend,  1881—84. 
Bickford,  ]Martin  Luther.    Waltham,  First.  1852 — 62, ;   Chico- 
pee,  Central,    1863 — 65. 
Bigelow,    John    F.      Three    Rivers,    1834—38;     Middleboro, 

Central,  1856—58. 
Bigger,    John     H.      Florida,     1892 — 96;      Sandisfield,     1896; 

Sandisfield  and  Tyringham.  1897 — 99;    Russell  and  Fair- 
field, 1900 — 
Biggs,  Louis  Carl  Huestis.     Rochdale   (Greenville),   1899 — 


144  PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Bills,  G.  B.  Deerfield  (extinct),  1846;  Whateley  (extinct), 
1847 ;    Warwick,    1861. 

Bingham,  Adoniram  Judson.    Holyoke,  Second,  i860. 

BiNNEY,  Joseph  Getchell.  West  Boylston,  1832 — 34;  South- 
bridge,   1836 — 37. 

Bird,  Warren.     Foxboro,  1820 — 28. 

Bishop,  Norman  North.  North  Easton  (acting),  1896 — 98; 
Beverly  Farms,   1898 — 99;    Chicopee,  First,  1900 — 

Bixby,  Dudley  Cotton.  East  Dedham,  1879—80;  Rehoboth, 
1880 — 83;  Osterville,  1883 — 84;  Haverhill,  Second,  1894 
(with  Merrimacport.  1896) — 1902. 

BixBY,  Fred  E.     Swansea,  1892 — 98. 

Bixby,  George  W.     Swansea,  1882 — 91. 

BjoRK,  John.     Quincy,  Swede,  1901 — 

Black,    George    H.      Boston,    African     (now    St.     Paul's), 

1839—41- 
Black^  Walter  Seward.     Russell,  1892 — 93. 
Blackburn,  Alexander.    Lowell,  First,  1887 — 93  ;   Cambridge, 

First,  1893 — 98. 
Blackman,   Virgil   W.     West   Townsend,    1901 — 
Blain,  John.     Charlestown,  High  Street  (extinct),  1846 — 50: 

Charlestown,    Bethesda    (now    Bunker    Hill),    1850 — 53; 

Mansfield,  1859 — 62;    Raynham,  1862 — 63. 
Blake,   Frederic   Dana.     Attleboro,    First,    1896 — 1901. 
Blake,     Samuel    Andrew.       Florida,     1866 — 67;      Mashpee, 

1873—77;     North   Tisbury,    1877—78;     Pondville,    1882. 
Blakeslee,    Frederic    Wallace.      North    Easton     (acting), 

1899;    Methuen,  1902 — 
Bland,  Frederick  D.     Waltham,  First,  1875 — 78. 
Blood.  Caleb.  Jr.     Boston,  Charles  Street  (extinct),  1807 — 09; 

Rehoboth,   1841 — 42;    Townsend,   1847 — 48. 
Bloss,   Samuel.     Cheshire,   First,    1816— -18. 
Bogart,     William.       New     Marlboro,     1850 — 52;      Florida, 

1852—55- 
Bolles,  Charlton  Burgess.    Rockport,  1895 — 1902 ;  Brockton, 

North,  1902 — 
Bolles,  David  C.     Southbridge,   1833 — 35- 
BoLLES,  Lucius.     Salem,  First.  1805 — 27. 
Bolles,  Lucius   Stillman.     Lynn,  First,   1833 — 37. 
Bolles,    Matthew.      Marblehead,    1824;     West   Bridgewater, 

1828. 
Bond,  E.  P.     Agawam,  1870 — 72. 
Bond,   Phineas.     Brewster,   1846. 
BoNHAM,     James     William.       Allston,     Brighton     avenue, 

1856—57;    Lowell,  Worthen  Street,  1857—60. 
BoNNEY,   Ira.     Savoy,   1869 — 70;     Sandisfield    (acting),    1882. 
BooDY,   Frederick   Samuel.     Agawam,   1899 — 
Boomer,   James.      Charlton    (extinct),    1807 — 2>7- 
Boomer,     James     Cushman.       Vineyard     Haven,     1837 — 42! 


PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 45 

Tisbury,  First,  1846 — 47;  Chelmsford,  First,  1847 — 56; 
Sutton,  Second,  1859—60;  South  Yarmouth,  1867 — 70; 
Dighton,  1870 — 7i;  West  Acton,  1873—78;  Manchaug 
and  Sutton,  Second,  1878 — 91. 

Boomer,  Job  Borden.  Sutton,  Second,  1819 — 43;  East  Brook- 
field,  1843 — 44. 

Boone,  William  Rufus.     Springfield,  Third.  1897 — 99. 

BooTHE,  John  William  Thomas.    Holyoke,  Second,  1890 — 99. 

Borden,  Job.     Freetown  (extinct),  1803. 

BoswoRTH,  George  Whitefield.  Medford,  First,  1841 — 46; 
Boston,  South,  1846 — 55;  Lawrence.  First,  1865 — 69; 
Haverhill,  First,  1869 — 79;  Secretary  Massachusetts  Bap- 
tist Convention,  1852—56,  1879 — 88. 

Bowen,  Everett  Anthony.     Still  River,  1896 — 99. 

Bowen,  J.  G.     Norton,  184.9. 

BowEN,  William.  Haverhill,  Second,  1825 — 27;  Edgartown, 
1828 — 30;  West  Harwich,  1830 — 31;  Westboro,  1832 — 2ii', 
West  Medway,  1833 — 34;  Chatham,  1842 — 43;  Hancock, 
185 1 — 52. 

BowEN,  W.  H.     Middleboro,  1884—87. 

Bowerman,  Louis  Scharl.  Medfield,  1889 — 91 ;  Randolph, 
1 89 1 — 96. 

Bowers,  Charles  Manning.  Lexington,  1841 — 45;  Clinton, 
1845 — 86;    Spencer,   1886 — 95. 

Bowers,  Edwin  D.  Rockport,  1878 — 80;  North  Bellingham, 
1881—84;  Holliston,  1884—89;  Sharon,  1889—91;  Chelms- 
ford, First,  1891 — 94;  Southwick,  1894 — 97;  Norton, 
1897- 

Bowles,  Ralph  Hart.  Lee,  1858 — 61 ;  Allston,  Brighton 
Avenue,  1861 — 67;  West  Newton,  1866—68;  Lee, 
1868—70. 

Boyd,  Willard  William.     Charlestown,  First,  1873 — 77. 

Boynton,  George  Edward.     Everett,  Glendale,  1897 — 99. 

Brackett,  John  Billings.  Lynn.  First,  1873 — 78;  Charles- 
town,  First,  1878—80;    Brookline,  1880—87. 

Bradbury,  Woodman.  Worcester,  Pleasant  Street,  1897 — 01 ; 
Cambridge,  Old,  1901 — 

Bradford,  J.  C.     Lee.   1900 — 01. 

Brady,  Herman  Edgar.  Dalton,  1893 — 97 ;  Mendon,  1897 — 99 ; 
Boston,   Bethel.    1902 — 

Bbady,  William   A.     Quincy,  Calvary,   1901 — 

Brainard,  a.  Southfield  1881—82;  Savoy,  1882—83,  1890; 
Charlemont,    1883 — 84. 

Braislin,    Edward.      Newton    Centre.    1881 — 85. 

Braker,  James  Scovel.     Waltham,  Beth-Eden.  1899 — 

Braman,  Bartemas.     Cheshire.  First.  181 1 — 12. 

Branch,  Nicholas.  Shrewsbury  (extinct),  and  West  Boylston. 
1820 — 23;     Springfield,    First,    1828 — 30;     Springfield    and 


146  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

South  Hadley,  1830;  East  Longmeadow,  1830;  Shutes- 
bury,  1846 — 47;    Orleans   (extinct),  1847 — 48. 

Bray,  C.  Gay  Head,  1852 — 53;  New  Bedford,  Second, 
1853 — 54;    Swansea,  1871 — T2>- 

Breaker,   John    Carl.     Northampton,    1899 — 

Breed,  Joseph  Blaner.     East  Dedham,  1858 — 62. 

Bridgman,  Charles  DeWitt.     Jamaica  Plain,  i860 — 62. 

Bridges,  Jeremiah   F.     Enfield    (extinct),   1825;    Southwick, 

1830—39. 
Brierly,  Benj.     Salem,  Central,  1846 — 47. 
Briggs,  Avery.  Maiden,  First,  1830 — 31;  Marblehead,  1832—35; 

Carver,    1842. 
Briggs,  Ebenezer.     Middleboro,  Fourth   (extinct),.  1810 — 41; 

Middleboro,  Fourth,  and  Raynham,  1841 — ^43 ;   Middleboro, 

Fourth,  1844 — 50. 
Briggs,    Frank    Clayton.      Boston,    Tabernacle     (assistant 

pastor),  1896 — 99;    jNIanchester,  1899 — 1902. 
Briggs,  Isaac.    Athol,  1824 — ZZ- 
Briggs,  Joel.     Randolph,  — 1802 — 28. 
Briggs,   Thomas   Pearl.     Charlemont,   1869 — 71 ;     Stoneham, 

1871 ;     Petersham,    1876^77;    Revere,    1880;     Cliftondale 

(acting),  1902. 
Briggs,  William   A.     Adams,   1863 — 71. 

Brigham,  Joseph  Webb.  West  Boylston,  1884 — 85;  Dorches- 
ter,    Temple,      1888 — 96;       Cambridge,     Inman      Square, 

1896 — 1900;   Dorchester,  Immanuel,  1900 — 01. 
Brockett,  J.   A.     New  Bedford,  Second    (extinct),   1887 — 88. 
Brockett,     Pierpont.       Springfield,    Third     (now     Chicopee 

Central),  1837—38. 
Bromley,    Edwin.      Tyringham,    1864 — 65;     West    Boylston, 

1866—67;     Dedham,    1869—72;     Norwood,    1872—75. 
Bronson,  Asa.     New   Bedford,  First,   1831 — 33;    Fall  River, 

Second,    1834—56. 
Bronson,    Asa    Clarke.      South    Hanson,    1S49 — 51;     North 

Reading,   1851 — 54;    Leominster,   1854 — 57. 
Bronson,  Asahel.  Williamstown,  1853—55;  Russell,  1858—59; 

Lee,  1863 — 64. 
Bronson,    Benjamin    Franklin.      Ashland,    1847 — 50;     Me- 

thuen,    1851—56;     Woburn,    First,    1858 — 61;     Roxbury, 

Tremont  Street  (extinct),  1862 — 66;    Southbridge,  Central, 

1867—71 ;    Andover,  1881—86. 
Bronson,  John  Jennings.     West  Harwich,  1861 — 62;    Barn- 
stable,   Third,     1866—68;      Nantucket,     1868—69;      West 

Newbury,  1873 — 74. 
Bronson,   Samuel  Jennings.     Millbury,   1846 — 53,   1870 — 74; 

Hyannis,  1854 — 67;    Winchester,  1867 — 69. 
Brooks,  Charles.     Rowe  and   Charlemont,    1864 — 67;    West 

Royalston,  1867 — 69. 
Brooks,  Kendall.     Fitchburg,  First,  1855 — 65. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1^7 

Brooks,    Samuel.      Beverly     Farms,    1857—60;     South    Fra- 

mingham,  1862—64;   West  Medway,  1866 — 69. 
Brown,  Abel.     Northampton,  1840. 
Brown,  Amasa.     South  Gardner,  1849—53.  . 

Brown,  ARCiiiBALD  S.     Granville,   1887—89;    Clmton,   1897— 

Brown  Caleb.  West  Townsend,  1832—33;  West  Royalston 
and  Warwick,  1834—36;  Barre,  1836—37;  Westmmster, 
1837—38;    Scituate,    1839—41-  „  „ 

Brown,  Dana.     Ashfield,    1837;    Chesterfield,    1838. 

Brown,  E.  C.    Springfield,  Third,  1900—02. 

Brown  Freeman  Greenwood.  Dorchester,  North  (now 
Stoughton  Street),  1848-50;    West  Townsend,   i85(^53- 

Brown,  Horace  Franklin.     Athol,    1887-93- 

Brown,  Jonathan  E.  South  Dartmouth  (extmct),i852— 54; 
iMillbury,  1864—66. 

Brown,  J.  Newton.     JNIalden,  First,  1827—28. 

Brown,  J.  W.    Raynham,  1890—92. 

Brown,  R.   H.     Springfield,   Berean,   1880. 

Brown,  R.  W.  E.     North  Randolph,  1848. 

Brown,  S.  Henrl    Springfield,  Third,  1890—96- 

Brown,    Theron.      South    Frammgham,    1859—61;     Canton, 

Brown,    Thomas    C.      Taunton,     Second     (now    Winthrop 

Street),  1820.  .  r,  u  u  .u 

Bkown,  William.     New   Salem    (extmct),   1836;    Rehoboth, 

Brown,  William  Lawton.  West  Springfield  (Ireland  Par- 
ish, now  Holyoke,  First),  1842—46;  Westboro,  1847— 
51-     Watertown,    1854—60;     North   Readmg,    1877— 79- 

Browne,  Addison.  Haverhill,  Second,  1850—54;  Tyrmgham, 
1858—61;    ]Manchaug,  1867—68. 

Brownville.  J.  Woodville,  1884—90;  Avon,  1890—92;  Har- 
vard, 1895—96. 

BucKBEE,  Charles  Alvah.    Conway,  i»4»— 51- 

BuEL,  Abel  P.    Amherst,  1872. 

BuFFUM,  Herbert  Edward.  Rowe  and  Charlemont,  1899 — 
1901 ;    Sterling,  1901 — 

Buis,  Fred  W.     Somerset   (acting),  1901— 

BuLLARD,  Dexter.    Upton  (extinct).  1824—26. 

Bullard,  Edwin  Buxton.     Foxboro,  1843-  ,     „ 

BuLLARD,  J.  A.  Lowell,  First,  1838—39;  Townsend,  1849—50; 
Ware   (extinct),  1850—51.  ,,,  ,    .  ,,.      ..      ^^. 

Bullen,  George.  South  Readmg  (now  Wakefield),  1864—66, 
Allston,  Brighton   Avenue    (actmg),   1867—68. 

Bullock,  A.  D.     Palmer,  1855—58.  „     ^,        ^  o 

Burbank,  Aaron.  West  Townsend,  1828;  Shutesbury  1830 ; 
Westminster,  1832;  Bernardston,  1838—40;  Whately 
(extinct),  1841 ;    Wendell,  1843-44- 


148  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

BuRBANK,     John      Felch.       Taunton      1840 — 41 ;     Webster, 

1843 — 46;    Woodville,    1848 — 52;    Leicester,   1852 — 53. 
BuRBANK,  Joseph  Perry.     Sutton,  Second,  1861 — 73. 
BuRBANK,  Nelson  Sinclair.     Revere,  1891 — 99;    Revere  and 

Franklin   Park,   1899 — 
Burch,    William    A.      Boston,    Ebenezer,    1882 — 83;     West 

Newton,    Myrtle,    1899 — 1900. 
Burden,  John.    Rowley,  1836 — 38;    Georgetown,  1839. 
Burdette,  Charles.     Shirley   (acting),   1882. 
BuRDiCK,  D.  M.     Rehoboth,  1842 — 44;    Mashpee,  1844 — 46. 
Burditt,  John  Frederick.     Kingston,  1880 — 81. 
Burgess,  Carleton  Ashbubg.    Cheshire,  1900 — 
Burgess,   Isaac   Julian.     West   Dedhani    (now   Westwood), 

1867—71 ;    Middleboro,   Third,   1871—75. 
BuRHOE,  John  T.     Marlboro,  1872 — 78. 
Burhoe,    Theophilus    Havelock.      Rochdale     (Greenville), 

1896—98. 
BuRKE,  John  B.    Middleboro,  Central,  1854 — 55;    Middlefield, 

1856-57. 
Burl,  Jacob.     West   Newton,   Myrtle,   1886 — 94. 
Burlingame,   Waterman.     Hingham,    1836 — 39. 
Burlingham,  Aaron  Hale.   Boston,  Harvard  Street,  1852 — 56. 
Burnett,  Joseph.     Gardner,  1868 — 70. 
BuRNHAM,    Edward.      Holyoke,    Second,    1868 — 69;     Lowell, 

Worthen  Street,   1873 — 74. 
BuRNHAM,    E.    M.     Warwick,    1844 — 45,    1854, 
Burnham,  G.  W.     Russell,  1888 — 91. 
BuRNHAM,   Sylvester.     Amherst,   1873 — 74. 
Burns,     William      Treat.       Haverhill,      Portland      Street, 

1876—81;    Lynn,  1881—83. 
Burr,  Everett  Doughty.     Boston,  Ruggles  Street,  1892 — 1900; 

Newton,  First,   1900 — 
Burr,  John  Ezra.     West  Newbury,  1878 — 83. 
Burrell,  Jacob.     West   Newton,  Myrtle,   1884 — 85. 
Burroughs,    Daniel.     Tewksbury,    1846 — 48;     Northampton, 

1859. 
Burrows,  Arthur   Salter.     Charlestown,   First,   1892 — 1900; 

Worcester,   South,   1901 — 
Burrows,   Christopher  Columbus.     Lynn,  Third,   1874 — 7^; 

Swampscott,  1876 — 80. 
Bursell,   David.     (Tarver,    1806 — 09. 

Burt,  Ebenezer.     Rochdale   (Greenville)  and  Hardwick   (ex- 
tinct), 1824;    Hardwick,  1825 — 26;    Hardwick  and  Ware, 

1828,    1842. 
Burton,  Nathan  Smith.    Needham,  1887 — 93. 
BuRTT,   Edw^in    Palmer.     Groton,    1891 — 94;    West   Newton, 

First,  1894 — 98. 
Burtt,     Joseph     M.       Georgetown,     1863 — 70;      Chelmsford, 

1877—78;    Georgetown,  1880—81. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 49 

Bush,  Alexander.     Lee   and  Tyringham,    1838 — 43. 
Bush,  W.  A.     New  Bedford,  Second   (extinct),  1874—75. 
BusHNELL,    Noah    Y.      Cheshire,    First,    1826—30,    1837—41; 

Florida,    1832—41. 
Bustard,  William  Walter.     Amesbury,  1898— 1900;    Boston, 

Dudley  Street,  1900 — 
Butler,  George  W.    Tyngsboro  (extinct),  1852—54;    Shirley, 

1854—55. 
Butler,  John.     Hanover,   181 1 — 24. 
Butler,  Thomas   Melvin.     Somerset,   1874—76;    North  Ux- 

bridge,  1882—88;    Canton,  1890—98. 
Buzzell,    Anson     S.      Westminster,     1900—1902;      Spencer, 

1902 — 1903. 
Byram,  B.  p.     Salisbury  and  Amesbury,  1850—60;    Plymouth, 

1874—76. 
Byrne,  Martin.     Westminster,  1850—51 ;    Conway,  1851—52. 

Cady,  E.     Savoy,  Second,  1847—49;    Spencer,   1849—50. 
Cahill,  Joseph  Allison.     Winchendon.  1882. 
Caldicott,  Thomas   Ford.     Roxbury,   Tremont   Church    (ex- 
tinct),  1839—48;    Charlestown,    First,   1850—53;    Boston, 

Baldwin   Place    (now  Warren  Avenue),   1853—58. 
Calley,  Walter.    Cambridge,  Charles  River  (now  Immanuel), 

1892—93;    Boston,  Tabernacle,   1893 — 1902. 
Cambridge,  Archie  Adams.    North  Billerica,  1891—96;    West 

Medford,  1896 — 98. 
Cameron,  John.     Hampden,  1898 — 
Cameron,  Robert.     Chelsea,  Carey  Avenue,  1893—96. 
Campbell.  K.  H.     East  Dedham,  1872—73. 
Cann,  F.  L.     Middleboro,  First,   1900— 1901. 
Capen,  Edward  Augustus.     Watertown,  1877— 1900. 
Carey,  Robert  H.     Greenfield,   First,   1896—98;    East  Long- 
meadow,    1899 — 1902;     Chicopee,    Central,    1902 — 
Carleton,  Cyrus  Henry.     Foxboro,  1867 — 68. 
Carleton,    George    Jonathan.      Andover,    1836—38;     West 

Cambridge    (now  Arlington),   1846 — 60. 
Carpenter,  George.     Westminster,  1848—50;    Rowe,  1851—53, 

1872;      North     Scituate,     1854—56;      Middleboro,     Third, 

1863;     Pondville,    1867—69;    Lanesboro,   1869—70. 
Carpenter,    Isaiah    Cady.      Templeton    (now    Baldwinville), 

1837—43;      Leominster,      1845—46;      Russell,      1853—54; 

Sterling,  1873—75. 
Carpenter,  Mark.     Holyoke,  First,  1851— 61. 
Carpenter,  William.     Westfield,  Central,  1855—59;    Sterling, 

1859—62. 
Carpenter,  William.     Gay  Head,  1901 — 
Carr.    Alex    Waterman.      Rowley.    1851—62;     Framingham, 

First,   1862—65;    Medfield,   1866—71;    Norfolk,   1872—74; 

Dighton,    1874—85. 


150  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Carr,  Samuel  J.  Norton,  1845;  South  Hanson,  1846 — 48; 
Mansfield,  1849 — 51;  Somerset,  1858 — 60;  South  Dart- 
mouth (extinct),  1861—66;  Chatham,  1866—68;  Milford, 
1868—69. 

Carter,  J.  Horatio.  Cambridge,  Union,  1879 — 86;  Boston, 
Ebenezer,  1886 — 93. 

Carter,  Lyman  Eugene.     Rowley,  1874 — 95. ' 

Case,  Anthony.     Shelburne,  First    (extinct),  1832. 

Cass,  T.  G.    Maplewood,  1878—82. 

Caswell,  Lewis  E.     Georgetown,  1844. 

Gate,  George  Washington.     Barre,  1844 — 48. 

Cederberg,  John   S.     Brockton,  Swede,   1886. 

Chaffin,  Aaron  Wheeler.     Danvers,   1850 — 62. 

Chamberlain,  Andrew.  New  Bedford,  Salem  (extinct), 
1885—90. 

Chamberlain,  Simeon.     Rowley,  1824 — 25. 

Chamberlin,  Carey  W.  Hudson,  1894—96;  Dorchester 
Temple,  1896 — 1901. 

Chamberlin,  Harry  Willard.  Monroe,  1895 — 97;  South- 
wick,  1897 — 99;    Petersham,  1899 — 

Chandler,  Edward  K.     Cambridge,  Broadway,  1882 — 89. 

Chandler,  Samuel  C.  Heath,  1840 — 41 ;  Needham  and  Dover 
(Dover  extinct),  1842;  Granville,  1872 — 72,;  West 
Dedham   (now  Westwood),  1874 — 77. 

Chapin,  Asahel.  West  Springfield,  Second  (now  Holyoke, 
First),    1848—49;    Holyoke,   Second,    1850—52. 

Chapin,  Joel  Parker.    Sutton,  First,  1877 — 80. 

Chaplin,  Adoniram  Judson.  Conway,  1858 — 59,  1869 — 72  ; 
Colerain,  First,   1887—88. 

Chaplin,    Jeremiah.      Danvers,    1802 — 16;     Rowley,    Second, 

1834- 
Chaplin,  Jeremiah,  Jr.     West  Dedham    (now   Westwood), 

1851 — 58;     East    Abington    (now    Rockland),    1859 — 62; 

Newton,  Immanuel,   1862 — 65. 
Chapman,    Hamilton    Edgar.      Haverhill,    Mt.    Washington 

1896— 
Chapman,  Nathan.     Norton,  1839 — 40;    Pocasset,  1841 — 46; 

Hanover,    1846;     Mashpee,    1850 — 52;     Manchaug,    1856; 

North    Marshfield,    1859 — 60;     Charlemont,    1862;     Heath, 

1863—64;    Deerfield    (extinct),    1864;     Norton,    1866 — 68; 

Barnstable,  Third,   1868—76. 
Charlton,  Frederick.    Webster,  1850—53. 
Chase,  Enoch  Eldridge.    Orleans  (extinct),  1833 — 34;   Brew- 
ster,  1845 — 46. 
Chase,    Ernest    A.      Raynham,    1895 — 98;     West    Harwich, 

1898 — 1901 ;    Brewster    (acting),   1902 — 
Chase,  Isaac.    New  Bedford,  First,  1823 — 24. 
Chase,  J.  C.    Pocasset,  1894. 
Chase,  John.     East  Brookfield,  1824 — 32. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  15I 

Chase,  John  Kelley.  East  Stoughton  (now  Avon),  1870 — 72,; 
Holden,  1874 — 78;  Rowley,  1879—81;  West  Newbury, 
1884—85. 

Chase,  L.    North  Attleboro,  1871—72;    Methuen,  1872—75. 

Chase,   Peter.     Watertown,    1830. 

Chase,   Simeon   Lovell  Bearce.     Methuen,   1883 — 87. 

Chase,   Wallace   Fairbanks.     Tyringham    (acting),    1902 — 

Chase,  William.  Tyringham,  1872 — 76;  Mashpee,  1877 — 80; 
Stamford,  Vt.,  1881—86. 

Chase,  William  Thomas.  Cambridge,  First,  1879 — 84;  Bos- 
ton, Ruggles  Street,  1889 — 91. 

Cheever,  Samuel.     Rehoboth,   1865 — 67;    Carver,   1871. 

Cheney,  David  Batchelder.     East  Boston,   Central   Square, 

1868—74- 
Chessman,  Daniel.     Warren,  1819;    Lynn,   First,   1829 — 33; 

Barnstable,   1833 — 38. 
Chick,  John  Maxwell.     South  Groton   (extinct),  1855 — 60; 

Fiskdale     (Sturbridge),    1862—63;     Woodville,    1872. 
Child,     Isaac.       Middlefield,     1818 — 26;      Westfield,     Second 

(extinct),      1828 — 34;       Chesterfield,      1832;       Hinsdale, 

1837 — 41;    Goshen    (extinct),   1841 — 43. 
Child.  Jonathan   Bush.     Amherst,   1884 — 92;    East  Brook- 
field.  1893 — 1901. 
Child,    William    Chauncy.      Charlestown,    First,    1844 — 50; 

Framingham,  First,  185 1 — 59. 
Chipman,  Homes.     North  Oxford,  1859 — 60. 
Chipman,  William   Pendleton.     Peabody,   1883 — 85. 
Choules,   John   Overton.      New    Bedford,    First,    1833 — 38; 

Jamaica  Plain,  1843 — 47. 
Christian,    W.      Boston,    Independent     (now    St.     Paul's), 

1830—31. 
Church,    Pharcellus.     Boston,   Bowdoin    Square,    1848 — 52. 
Church,    Volney.      Wales,    1844—47;     Middlefield,    1848. 
Clapp,  John.     Gardner,   1838. 
Clark,    Albert   Vinton.     West    Royalston,    1874 — 78    (with 

Warwick,   1874—78). 
Clark,  Amasa.    Russell,  1828 — 30. 
Clark,  Caleb.     Haverhill,  Second,  1828;    New  Bedford.  First, 

1830 — 32;     Rowley,    Second,    1832;     Brewster,    1833 — 34; 

Orleans   (extinct),  1834 — 35. 
Clark,   David.      Westfield,   Central,    1837—41. 
Clark,    Henry.       Seekonk     (extinct),     1835 — 37;     Taunton. 

1838 — 40;  Charleton,  1840—43;  North  Randolph,  1843—46; 

Middlefield.  1849 — 50. 
Clark,  Ira  D.     Northampton,  1862 — 65. 

Clark,  James.     Heath  (extinct),  1852;    Plainfield  and  Buck- 
land  (extinct),  1853 — 54. 
Clark,  John.     Turner's  Falls,  1893 — 95. 
Clark,  John  L.     Cambridge,  Inman  Square,  1894 — 95. 


152  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

ClarKj  J.  Ward  Burt.     Haverhill,  Portland  Street,  1881 — 86. 

Clark,  N.     Taunton,  1837.     Wendell,  1852 — 53. 

Clark,     N.     Judson.       South    Abington     (now     Whitman), 

i860 — 62. 
Clark,    Thomas    Winthrop.      Nantucket,    Summer    Street, 

1851—53;    Lexington,  1858;    West  Harwich,  i860;    Brain- 
tree,  1870 — 71 ;    Norfolk,  1876. 
Clark,  William  Herman.     Needham,  1884 — 87. 
Clarke,  Charles  F.     Weymouth,  1895 — 97;    North  Reading, 

1902 — 
Clarke,  Miner  Grant.    North  Grafton,  1839 — 40;  Springfield, 

First,    1846 — 50. 
Clarke,  William   Newton.     Newton  Centre,   1869 — 80. 
Clay,  Joseph.     Boston,  First,  1807 — 09. 
Cleaveland,   George  Aaron.     Rockport,   1881 — 83 ;    Melrose, 

First,  1886 — 93,  Fells,  1893 — 94. 
Cleaves,  Arthur  Wordsworth.     Scituate,  First,  1901 — 
Cleaves,  Francis  Elliott.    Woodville,  1846;    North  Reading, 

1848—50;    Littleton,   1852—56;    Osterville,   1875—76. 
Clements,  William.    Rockport,  1902 — 
Cleveland,  Daniel  M.     South  Hanson,   1900 — 
Cleveland,  Frederick  Louis.     Hanover,   1901 — 
Clift,   B.    H.     Littleton,    1847;     Gardner,    1848;    Leominster, 

1849. 
Cloues,  William  Jacob.     Littleton,  1888—99. 
Clough,   George   Wesley.     Andover,    1890 — 92. 
Coats,  Albert  B.     Beverly,  First,  1891 — 98. 
Coats,  Orville.     Pittsfield,  First,  1887 — 93;    East  Somerville, 

1893 — 1902;    Lowell,    Fifth   Street,    1902 — 
Cobb,  Davis.     Chatham,  1846 — 47. 
Cobbett,  R.     Colerain,  Second,   1859. 
Coburn,  Alfred.     Westfield,  Central,   1843 — 44. 
Coburn,  Fred  Eugene.     Florida,   1896 — 98. 
Coburn,  W.   L.     Charlemont,   1866—67;    Norton,   1868. 
Codding,  Elijah.     Wales,   1824 — 29. 
Coe,  Henry  Dingee.     Edgartown,   1898 — 1901. 
Coffin,  Henry  W.     Merrimac,  1877 — 79;    Plymouth,  1880 — 84. 
CoKER,  Jesse.    Chatham,  1874 — 76 ;   Vineyard  Haven,  1879 — 82 

(with   Oak  Blufifs,    1881)  ;    Rockport,    1892—94;     Dalton, 

1898 — 1901. 
CoLBURN,  Alfred.     Adams,  1856;    Chelmsford,  Central,  1867; 

Raynham,  1870—73;    Woodville.  1873—76;  Conway,  1876. 
Colby,  Lewis.     Melrose,  First   (acting).  1862 — 6},. 
Colby,   Nathaniel  Lord.     North   Billerica,   1872 — 79. 
Coldwell,  S.  a.     Charlemont,  1896 — 97. 
Cole,  C.  H.    Lvnn,  Third  (extinct),  1862—64,  1870—73;    East 

Dedham,  1875 — J"]. 
Cole,    Gideon.      Weymouth.    1863—70;     Somerset,    1876 — 84; 

Danvers,  1884—88;    Salem,  Calvary,  1888—^2. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  153 

CoLESWORTHY    ^^o'^^'^-  ,  ^reentield    ^  lr^t     io59^   'Boylston, 

ie7Q_8^ ;    Tyringham,    1890—95. 
roTEY    tImes  M.     North  Randolph,  1833— 35- 

sirs  ^rr,r"--'.^"Bs^- -™i!^:^;  f... 

1861—64.  ^ 

r™'  NfxlAmEl"  JR    l^t'on,  Union  Baptist  Church  (now 
^™emont'' Temple),     1839-52;      South    Abu.gton     (now 

Whitman),    1852— 53.  ,o^o_o, 

CoLWELL,  T.  M.    Lowell,  First    ^%^\^^^_^^.     Plymouth. 

Conrad,  J.  R.     ^^°"^°^'oi!f     FirW      i82'^— 14;      Westboro, 

^°^r8?A38°"&orth''^t;ilph  "183^41 ;  '>nton.     First 

;84?-46;    Athol,  1854;    Wendell   (extmct),  1867;    Heath 

CoNWATHiRAM.'Vorcester,  John  Strej=t,  1889- 
CoNWELL,  Russell  H.     Lexmgton,  1881-82. 

Cook^SSrv  ALLEN,     Lawrence.  Second,  .865-<9;    Boston, 

CooK'/of  jo-H^n^aMen,  Fir...  .844-5.  .844_-47 ;    Lowe,,, 
First    1826;    Reading,  Salem  Street.   1849—51. 

COOMBS  Hhnrv  Clark    Sn°"K'''VRf8'- Pois^^^^^^^    sfe^;   i 
Rehoboth,  1844-46;  Shutesbury,  1848,  Pocasset   i»o^7^ 

Pondville    and    Carver,    1872;     Carver,    i873-74. 
r  n^S'l   w''ctXnr?876;    MTddleboro,  First,  3889. 
CoombI:  Jo^N.   ^Retboth!  1B68-70;    Bernardston,  1870-71. 


154  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Coombs,  Simeon.  Middleboro,  Second,  1805 — 16;  Barnstable, 
1817. 

Coombs,  Stephen.  Middleboro,  Second,  1825 ;  Mashpee, 
1853—58;    South  Yarmouth,  1859;    Pondville,  1873—74. 

CooNEY,  Lorenzo  Augustus.     Fells,   1901 — 

Cooper,  Clayton  Sedgwick.  Lynn,  Washington  Street, 
1898 — 1902. 

Cooper,  Fennimore  H.     Edgartown,   1892 — 94. 

Cooper,  George.     North  Attleboro,  1866—70. 

Cooper,  H.     Scituate,  1838. 

Cooper,  James.     Melrose,  First,   1859 — 62. 

Cooper,  John.     Northbridge,   1802 — 17. 

Cooper,  Warren.  West  Royalston  and  Winchendon,  1836 — 37 ; 
Billerica,  First,  1839 — 40;  Wales,  1843 — 44;  West  Royals- 
ton  and  Winchendon,   1849 — 52. 

CoPELAND,  L.  H.     Hampden  and  East  Longmeadow,  1881 — 86. 

Corbett,  Benjamin  Smith.     Andover,  1841 — 48. 

Corbett,   Isaac  Allen.     Pondville    (supply),   1899. 

Cordo,    Henry    A.      Boston,    South,     1875 — 78;     Whitman, 

1895—98- 
Cornell,    Henry    Allen.      Chelmsford,    Central,    1893 — 96; 

Merrimac,    1896 — 98    (with    West    Newbury,    1896;     with 

Merrimacport,    1897). 
Cornish,   Clark.     Falmouth  Village    (extinct),   1825. 
Couch,    Charles.     Sandisfield,    1892. 
CovELL,    Lemuel.      Cheshire,    Third,    1806;     North    Adams, 

1836-38. 
Cox,  John  Hosmer.     Athol,   1881 — 87;    Merrimac,   1892 — 95; 

Lexington,    1895 — 1902 ;    West   Harwich,   1902 — 
Cox,    Obadiah    Erastus.      South    Amesbury    (Merrimacport, 

extinct),  1870 — 71;  New  Bedford,  North,  1873 — 75;   North 

Easton,  1893 — 94. 
Coy,  E.     Royalston  Centre   (extinct),  1848. 
Craft,  George  Gilbert,  Worcester,   JFirst,   1888 — 93. 
Crafts,    Daniel    Lord.      Lynn,     1876 — TJ)     New     Bedford, 

1879—31;    Somerset,  1887—88.      • 
Crandall,  B.  C.     Egremont,  1844 — 47  ;    Hinsdale,  1847 — 48. 
Crane,  Alvin  Millin.     Medfield,   1872 — 78;    West  Boylston, 

1878—83;    Shelburne  Falls,  1883—89;    Millbury,  1889—91; 

Medfield,  1891 — 97;    Groton,  1897 — 
Crane,  Cephas  Bennett.     Boston,  First,  1878 — 84;   Woburn, 

First  (acting),  1898 — 
Crane,  Denzel  Mansfield.     Boston,  Union    (now  Tremont 

Temple),    1861 — 62,;    North   Dorchester    (now   Stoughton 

Street),  1864—66;    Greenfield,  First,  1867—69;    Winthrop, 

1876—78;     Northampton,    1878—79. 
Crane,  Eben.     Salisbury  and  Amesbury,   1834. 
Crane,     Origen.        Newton,      Second,      1836--39;      Weston, 

1839—53. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  155 

Crankshaw,  Burton.     Cambridge,  Second,  i88^3- 
Crawford,     James     Edward.       Nantucket,     Pleasant     btreet, 

CRAw't^THOMirWiLLXAM.  Reading,  Salem  Street.  1868-70; 

Kingston,  1872—74-  ,      . 

grsfv:«K?R'''Kra;.'.''.?7.-34;    Boston.   South, 

Crocker,  T.  C.     Edgartown,  1890. 
Crocker,  Wallace.     Sandisfield,  i8«4— «o- 
Croft,  Delmar  E.     South  Framnigham,   1 893-94- 
Crosby,  Charles  C.  P.    West  Boylston.  1825. 
Crowell,   Simeon.     South   Yarmouth,   1825—47- 
Crowell,  W.  B.    Ro^vley-  ^89^\90i.  Charlemont. 

Crowley,    Harvey.      Stamford,    Vt      1848—52,     L.nariemom, 
tQ,c2 — zLc-    Bernardston,  1855 — 50.  r\i^,\ 

^-S-|.  So«hl^ever  J'S?«h<sS™deS^d^^8,£^l: 
gS  20S^N."wa?:t*'r863;    Winchendon  and  Royals- 

CuMMiNof  E^eIezer  E.     Springfield    Fj--^'.  -85.-52. 
CuMMisos.  Elkanah  Andrews.    Amherst,  1850-57 ,    Maple 

C.Z°iL'^ulkTo.     Somervllle,   ,887-^2;    Rockland, 

CuNS7„r,-    OR.AN»0        Princeton     (extinct),     .842-43 i 
Sterlino-    1845—50;    Middlefield,   i»50— 54- 

Curtis,  ChIndler     Westminster,  i84|-52__  Bedford. 

Curtis     David.      West    Harwich,    1824—25.  \xt\:^u^^„\ 

Rrst      1825-26;      South     Abington     (now     Whitman), 
1828^32:     Carver,    1832-33;     Medway,    1845-46- 

CuRTis    L.  B.     North  Grafton,  1901—  T«^a_-J2- 

SSI: .  Moses.      Canton     .8.^30  ;M.ddefieW,.830^^3|^. 

?ISr"su,;d!Sd'  anrionta"r(Mon.igue^  extinct), 
Cuetk^'reuben.     Gloucester    First    .828. 

Boston,   Thirteenth    (extinct),    1856,     Chariestown, 

(acting),  1857—60.  Scituate,     First, 

C„.eer,^_Stephe.^    spencer,^  .843-_47.._    Sc^t,  ^.^^,3.„„, 

CuTON^TsiwALi.    S.     West    Boylston,    .836;     Southbridge, 

First    (extinct),  1838—46. 


156  PASTOKS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Dahlin,  Carl  O.     Brockton,  Swede,  1901 — 

Daland,  George.  New  Salem  (extinct),  1838 — 42;  New 
Salem  and  Prescott  (extinct),  1843 — 44;  Sutton,  First, 
1844—45;  Manchaug,  1846—47;  Middleboro,  Third, 
1847 — 48;  Pocasset,  1848 — 49;  South  Braintree,  1849—58; 
Somerset,   1861 — 62. 

Dalton,  H.  W.     West  Newbury,  1869,  1879 — 80. 

Dalrymple,  William  Henry.  South  Abington  (now  Whit- 
man), 1835 — 27',  Northboro,  1837 — 40;  Gardner,  1840 — 42; 
Manchaug.  1844;  Woodville.  1844 — 46;  Barnstable, 
1849 — 50;    Haverhill,  Second,  1862—66. 

Dame,  Jonathan  E.     Swampscott.  1880 — 82. 

Damon,  Franklin.     Brewster,  1848 — 51. 

Damon,  Joseph  Brooks.  West  Dedham  (now  Westwood), 
1841—43. 

Danforth,  George  F.  Medford,  First,  1847 — 48;  South  Dart- 
mouth (extinct),  1849 — 51;  North  Tisbury,  1852 — 53; 
Manchester,   1853 — 54. 

Daniels,  E.  D.  Colerain,  First,  1868 — 69;  North  Leverett  and 
Montague,  1869 — 70;    Palmer,  1870 — 71. 

Darby,  Otis  H.     Rowe  and  Charlemont,  1901 — 

Darrow,  George  R.  West  Bojdston,  1856-— 58;  Dorchester, 
Fairmount  (now  Hyde  Park),  1863 — 64;  South  Abington 
(now  Whitman),  1864 — 67;  Chicopee,  Central,  1870 — 71; 
West  Boylston,  1873 — 74.  1886;  South  Framingham, 
1874 — 75;     Woodville,    1876 — 77. 

Dary,  Albert  Nelson.     Everett,  1881 — 83  ;    Dighton,  1885 — 88. 

Davenport,  Edward.  Colerain,  Second,  1824 — 2ii !  Rowe, 
1836 — 41;  Colerain,  Second,  1841 — 50  (with  Bernards- 
ton,  1842). 

Davenport,   William   H.     Everett,   Glendale,   1891 — 92. 

Davey,  William  Kemp.  Reading,  Salem  Street,  i860 — 62; 
North  Reading,  1864—67;  West  Acton,  1868—72;  North- 
boro, 1873 — 77  \  Fayville,  1877 — 79;  Fayville,  1880 — 82; 
South  Hanson,   1883. 

Davies,   Samuel.     South  Boston,   Fourth   Street,    1858 — 60. 

Davis,  Alonzo  A.  Bernardston,  1891 — 95 ;  Lanesboro, 
1896 — 97. 

Davis,  Francis  Howard.     Foxboro,  1892 — 95. 

Davis,  George  Weston.  South  Amesbury  (now  Merrimac- 
port,  extinct),  1871 — 75;  Rowley,  1875 — 76;  Orange, 
1876 — 80;    Chicopee  Central,   1880 — 90;    Wales,   1894 — 98. 

Davis,  Gustavus  Fellowes.  South  Reading  (now  Wake- 
field),  1818—29. 

Davis,   Henry    Stanton.     Wendell,    1878;     Hancock,    1901 — 

Davis,  Jacob.  North  Marshfield,  1861 — 69;  Florida,  1869 — 77; 
Rowe,   1878—89. 

Davis,  John  Henry.  Newton,  Second,  1896 — 98;  George- 
town, 1898 — 

Davis,  Joseph.     Nottingham,  West,  1824 — 25;    Reading,  1828; 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  I  57 

Brookline,    1830;    North  Randolph,   1832;     Sharon,    1834; 

Maiden,   First,   1840,'    Plymouth,    1841 — 42. 
Davis^  Ulysses  Sherman.     Marlboro,  1896—99. 
Day,  Ambrose,  Jr.     Chesterfield,   First,  1830 — 42;    Westfield, 

Second     (extinct),    1843,    1846 — 51,    1855 — 59,    1865 — 66; 

Chesterfield,  1844;    VVilliamstown,  1881 — 82. 
Day,  George  F.     Savoy,  First,  1861 — 62. 
Day,  Henry.     Ashland,   1851. 

Day,  William  J.     Somerville,  Winter  Hill,  1892 — 
Dealtry,  C.  W.     South  Hanson,  1897 — 98. 
Dean,    Henry    Martyn.      Hingham,    1878 — 87;     Dorchester, 

First     (acting),    1887 — 88;     Cambridge,    First    (assistant 

pastor),  1890 — 91. 
Dean,  Leonard  John.     Randolph,  1882 — 84. 
Dean,  Myron   Munson.     Marblehead,   1840 — 47. 
Dean,   William   Kendrick.     Russell,    1867 — 68;    Southwick, 

1879—81. 
Dearborn,    Danville   Augustine.     Leveritt   and    Montague, 

1863—^34;     Southwick,    1865 — 70;     Manchaug,    1870 — 74; 

Granville.    1874—80;    Russell,   1885—87. 
DeGruchy,    Thomas.      Newton,    Second,    1885 — 86;     Revere 

and  Franklin  Park,  1886 — 89;    Chicopee,  Central,  1891 — 94. 
Deming,  Amos.     Savoy,  First  and  Second,  1836 — 67. 
Deming,  Miner  Rudd.     Marlboro,  1868 — 71 ;    Boston,  Taber- 
nacle,    1887 — 92;      Boston,    Tremont    Temple     (associate 

pastor),    1897 — 99. 
Denison,  Erastus.     West  Tisbury,   1852 — 53. 
Dennett,  Erwin.     Franklin,   1887 — 89;    Roslindale,  1889 — 93. 
Dennis,  W.  C.     Boston,  Twelfth,  1876—79. 
Dennis,  William  L.     Barnstable  and  Orleans   (Orleans  ex- 
tinct),  1838 — 40. 
Dennison,   Charles  W.     Newton,   Second,  1842 — 44. 
Denno,  J.  W.     West  Royalston,   1890. 
Depew,  W.  a.    Chelmsford,  First,  1873—75. 
Dewhurst,  Ell     Baldwinville,  1862—65;    Hinsdale,  1868 — 76. 
Dewhurst,   Frederick   Ell     Wollaston,   1882 — 87. 
DeWolfe,  Henry  Todd.     Foxboro,  1895 — 1901. 
Dexter,    Henry    Vaughan.      Baldwinville,    1871 — 75. 
Dick,  J.  W.     North  Uxbridge.   1869;    Still  River,  1871—72; 

West  Bridgewater,  1880 — 82. 
Dickenson,  E.  W.    Danvcrs,  1839. 
Dickerson,  James  Stokes.     Boston,  South,  1870 — 75. 
Dickie,  Robert  B.     Hanover,   1834—37;    Middleboro,  Third, 

1837—40. 
Dickinson,  Fenner  Bush.     Cambridge,  Charles  River  (now 

Immanuel),  1871 — 78;    Boston,  Bowdoin  Square,  1878 — 80. 
Dill,  John  S.     Gay  Head,  1832—33;    Dartmouth   (extinct), 

1838 — 40. 


158  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

DiLTS,  Asa  Read.     Northampton,   1892 — 98;    Lowell,  Branch 

Street,   1898— 
DiMOCK,  A.  V.     Colerain,  First,  1848 — 51 ;    Templeton    (now 

Baldwmville),  1851—56. 
DiMOCK,  Arthur  Vilroy.     Winthrop,   1900 — 
DiNSMORE,  Joseph  Edward.  Merrimacport  (extinct),  1887 — 88; 

Huntington,  1888 — 89;    Chelmsford,  First,  1890 — 91;    Cot- 
tage City,  1892 — 93 ;    North  Sunderland  and  North  Lev- 

erett,     1893 — 95;      Fayville,     1895 — 97;      New     Bedford, 

Immanuel,  1900 — 02;    Nantucket,  People's,  1902 — 
Dixon,  Amzi  Clarence.     Boston,  Ruggles  Street,   1901 — 
Dixon,  Joseph  Kossuth.     Boston,  Warren  Avenue,  1898 — 99. 
Dixon,  Thomas,  Jr.     Boston,  Dudley  Street,  1887 — 88. 
DocKRELL,  Henry  Grattan.     Allston,  Mill  Memorial,   1900 — 
Dodge,  Oliver  Augustus.     Lexington,  1835 — 40. 
Dolan,  Edwin  Bailey.    Wales,  1902 — 
Donovan,  Dennis.     Belchertown,  1867 — 69. 
Donovan,    James    Dean.      Sutton.    First,    i860 — 61 ;     New 

Salem  and  Prescott  (extinct),  1868;  Shutesbury,  1871 — 72; 

Sunderland  and  Montague,  1873. 
Doolittle,  Horace  D.     West  Springfield,  Second   (now  Hol- 

yoke.    First),    1839 — 42;     Northampton,    1842 — 46;     Will- 

iamstown,  1850 — 53. 
Dorrance,    George    W.      Fiskdale     (Sturbridge),    1849 — 52; 

Webster,   1853— 55-. 
Doty,  Erastus.     Williamstown,   1819 — 20. 
Dougherty,  M.  Angelo.     Boston,  Stoughton  Street,  1872 — 77. 
Douglass,   Charles  T.     Reading,   1885 — 87;    Turner's  Falls, 

1889 — 91 ;    North  Brockton,   1891 — 95. 
Dow,  B.  R.    West  Medway,  1884—86. 
Dow,  Ernest  Wentworth.     Cottage  City,  1898 — 99. 
DowLiNG,  Thomas.     West  Springfield,   1852 — 54. 
Downs,  W.  W.     Boston,  Bowdoin  Square,  1881 — 85. 
Drew,  John.     Carver,    1803. 

Drew,  Simon  P.  W.     Boston,  St.  Paul's,  1901 — 02. 
Drinkwater,  Arthur.     Danvers,   1824 — 28. 
Driver,  Joseph  M.    Reading,  1828 — 30;    Brookline,  1830 — 31; 

North   Randolph,    1832 — Z2,'>     Sharon,    1833 — 34;     Maiden, 

First,     1839 — 40;      Plymouth,     1841 — 42;      Northampton, 

1843;    Rockport,    1858. 
Driver,  Thomas.    West  Dedham  (now  Westwood),  1830 — 38; 

Boston,  South,  1829 — 30,  1839 — 43;  Lynn,  First,  1844 — 46; 

Sturbridge,  1848 — 49. 
Drury,      Lucian.        Winchendon,      1870 — 72;       Swampscott, 

1872 — 76;     Danvers,    1876 — 83;     Bellingham    and    North 

Bellingham,  1892 — 98;  Swansea,  1898 — 
Duer,  John.  Lowell,  Third  (extinct),  1856. 
Dugdale,  William.     Nantucket,   Summer   Street,   1887. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  I  59 

Dunbar,  Darius.  Hanover,  1833 — 345  Pembroke  (extinct) 
and  Hanson,  1835 — 2>7. 

Dunbar,  Duncan.     Boston,  South,  1843 — 46. 

Duncan,  John.  Lowell,  Third  (extinct),  1847 — 51;  Boston, 
South,  1858 — 63;  West  Cambridge  (now  Arlington), 
1863 — 64;  Fall  River,  Second,  1865 — 70;  Mansfield, 
1880—83. 

Dunn,  Albert  Teele.  West  Harwich,  1877 — 79'>  Boston, 
Stoughton  Street,  1879 — 85. 

Dunn,  Andrew.  Royalston  and  Winchendon,  1843 — 47; 
Winchendon,  1848 — 52 ;  Holden,  1853  ;  West  Bridgewater, 
1854;  Weymouth,  1855—58;  Chatham,  1858 — 60;  Still 
River,  i860 — 63  ;  East  Gloucester,  1863 — 67 ;  Haverhill, 
Second,  1867 — 71;  Rowley,  1871 — 74;  West  Newbury, 
1874 — 78  (with  Amesbury,  1876)  ;  East  Brookfield, 
1878—81;    West  Royalston,  1887—91. 

Dutcher,  E.     Williamstown,  1845. 

Dwyer.  Ransom  O.     Stamford,  Vt,  1838 — 39. 

Dyke,  Samuel  A.    Cottage  City,  1902 — 

Earle,  Charles  Clifton.  Boston,  Harvard  Street,  1892 — 1901; 
Lawrence,  Second,  1902 — 

Easterbrook,  Gorham.  Hyde  Park,  1881 — 84;  Southbridge, 
Central,  1884 — 92;  East  Somcrville,  1892;  Leicester, 
1894 — 96;    West  Acton,  1896 — 

Easton,  Daniel  Charles.  Brewster.  1873 — 74 ;  Orange,  1875 ; 
Wendell,  1876 — yy,    Fells,  igoo — 01. 

Eaton,  Charles   Aubrey.     Natick,    1893 — 95. 

Eaton,  Horace.     North  Reading,   1862 — 62,. 

Eaton,  Joseph  Warren.  Lowell,  First,  1836 — 27  '<  Spring- 
field,  First,    1840 — 43;    Danvers,    1843 — 51. 

Eaton,  William  Hadley.     Salem,  Central,  1849 — 54. 

Eaton,  William  Harrison.  Salisbury  and  Amesbury, 
1868 — 72,;  Westfield,  1873 — 88;  Secretary  Massachusetts 
Baptist  Convention,   1888— 

Eddy,  Daniel  C.  Lowell,  First,  1846 — 57 ;  Boston,  Harvard 
Street,  1856 — 62;  Boston,  Baldwin  Place  (now  Warren 
Avenue),  1865 — 71;  Fall  River,  First.  1871 — 73;  Boston, 
Tabernacle,    1873 — 77 'y    Hyde   Park,    1878—80. 

Eddy,  Edwin  Barnard.  Beverly,  First.  1852 — 55 ;  Winchester, 
1855 — 60;    Waltham,  First,  1862 — 67. 

Edson,  a.  Raynham,  1867 — 70;  East  Dedham,  1870;  Fall 
River,  Mechanicsville   (extinct),  1872. 

Edwards,  Benjamin  Alexander.  Grafton,  First,  1845 — 49; 
Watertown,  1850 — 54;  Newton,  First,  1854 — 56;  Plym- 
outh, 1856—60;  Holliston,  i860 — 65;  Sharon,  1865 — 72; 
Bolton,   1872 — 79. 

Edwards,  Ephraim  Andrews.  Gay  Head,  1857 — 58;  Mash- 
pee,  1 86 1 — 65. 


l6o  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Eggleston,  a.  B.  Plainfield  (extinct),  1842 — 43;  Buckland 
(extinct),  1844 — 46;  Ashfield,  1847 — 48;  New  Salem  and 
Paris  (extinct),  1849 — 51;  Winchendon  and  Royalston, 
1861—63. 

Elliot,  Joseph.  Roxbury,  Tremont  Church  (extinct), 
1822 — 24. 

Ellis,  Alexander.  Boston,  Independent  (now  St.  Paul's), 
1868—76;    Boston,  Day  Star  (extinct),  1876—81. 

Ellis,  Charles  Haigh.     Chelmsford,  Central,   1897 — 

Ellis,  Ferdinand.     Marblehead,  181 1 — 17. 

Ellis,  Frank  M.  Boston,  Union  (now  Tremont  Temple), 
188(^-83. 

Ellis,  Harmon.     Egremont,  1836;    Hancock,  1837 — 38. 

Ellis,  Robert  Fulton.    Springfield,  Second  (Chicopee,  First), 

1838-45. 

Ellison,  Joseph.     Carver,  1894—^9. 

Elmore,  David  W.     Barre   (acting),   1832. 

Elsdon,  William  P.     Brewster,  1869 — "JZ',   Hyannis,  1873—79. 

Ely,  R.  M.     Barnstable,  Third,  1844—47. 

Emerson,  Forest  Fayette.     Gloucester,  First,  1868 — 73. 

Emerson,  Howard  Malcolm.     Methuen,  1861 — 62. 

Emerson,  Oliver.     North  Reading,  1845 — 46. 

Emery,  E.  J.     Warwick,  1858—60;    Barre,  1865—70. 

Emery,  Ira.     Chatham,  1888—89. 

Emery,  John  C.  Haverhill,  Fourth  (extinct),  1872 — 74; 
Athol,    1874—76;     Lowell,   Worthen    Street,    1880—84. 

Emery,  Samuel  Harvey.     Salem,  Calvary,  1883 — 88. 

English,  John  Mahan.  Gloucester,  First,  1875 — 82;  Rox- 
bury, Dudley  Street,  1882. 

Englund,  Peter  August.     Quincy,  Swede,  1889 — 1901. 

Engstrom,  Charles  John.  Marshfield,  1894;  Gay  Head, 
1895 — 96;    Florida,   1898. 

Enslin,  Francis  Raymond,  Jr.     Littleton,  1899 — 

Ergus,  J.     Three  Rivers,   1889 — 90. 

Esten,  Richard  Bartlett.  Amesbury,  1886 — 91 ;  Westfield, 
1891— 1900;    Roslindale,  1900 — 

EsTES,  David  Foster.     Holden,  1886 — 91. 

EsTES,  Hiram   Cushman.     Rochdale    (Greenville),    i860 — 61, 

1886—93. 
EsTEY,  Aaron  H.     Westboro,  1874 — 75. 

Evans,  Charles.     South  Reading  (now  Wakefield),  1843 — 44. 
Evans,     Philip     Saffrey.       Boston,     Thirteenth     (extinct), 

1857—58;      Shelburne     Falls,     1872—79;      Salisbury    and 

Amesbury,   1879—86. 
Evans,  Thomas  Phillips.     Billerica,  First,  1897 — 
Evans,  William  Henry.     Hyannis,  1867—72;   Holyoke,  First, 

1872—79;    Littleton,   1880—83;    North  Oxford,   1883—85; 

Still  River,  1887—95. 
EvELETH,  Joshua.     Dudley   (extinct),  1828. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  l6l 

Everett,   Samuel.     Milford,   1825;    Leverett   and   Montague, 

1840—43;    Sunderland  and  Montague,   1844—45- 
Everett,     Samuel     P.       Colerain,     First,     1872—81;      Ayer, 

1889—97;    Bernardston,    1897— 1901. 
Everett,    Willl^m    P.      East    Abington    (Rockland),    1856; 

Chelsea,   Carey  Avenue,    1865 — 67. 
Everitt,   Harry  L.     Williamstown    (acting),   1901— 
Everts,    Noah    Rudd.      Wakefield,    1888— 1900;     Plymouth, 

1902 — 
Ev'erts,  William  Wallace,  Jr.     Haverhill,  First,   1887—95; 

Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  assistant  pastor.  1900— 
Ewer,   James    Kendall.     Reading,    Salem    Street,    1874—85; 

Maplewood,  1902 —  ^t  ,     /       •      \ 

Ewer  Seth.    Taunton  Second,  1830;   Holmes  Hole  (extinct), 

1832—33;     West    Harwich,     1834—37;     South    Hanson, 

1861—62;    Norton,  1864;    Halifax  (extinct),  1866. 
Eyers,  John.    Three  Rivers,  1887—92 ;   Brewster,  1892—95. 

Fairbanks,  George  Greenwood.  Medfield,  1851-55;  S9mer- 
ville,  First,  1855—66;  East  Dedham,  1866—69;  Middle- 
boro.  Central,  1869— 1883.  ^^  „.  , 

Fairbrother,  Alfred.  Cottage  City,  1889—90;  Vineyard 
Haven,    1894— 1901 ;    Hudson,   1901—  00      qa 

Fairfax  Robert  Newton.  Haverhill,  Calvary,  i{5»4— 00; 
Boston,  Twelfth,  1886—89.  .  ,         „^      ^ 

Fairman,  J.  Charlemont,  1861 ;  Florida,  1862—65;  New 
Marlboro,  1866. 

Farley,  R.  G.    Rowley,  1870;    Georgetown,  1871— 73;    Savoy, 


Farnham,  Edwin  Pickett.    Salem,  First,  1888— 

Farr,  Frederic  William.     Milford,   1888—91. 

F^rrar,  Charles.  Bernardston,  1843—45;  Southwick  and 
East  Longmeadow,  1846;  East  Longmeadow,  1847; 
Northboro,  1848—56;  Warwick,  1871—73;  North  Sun- 
derland,   1874—75-  ,      ,    x^-  o^       ^        T 

Farrar,  John  Perkins.  Chelmsford,  First,  1863—65;  Lynn 
Third  (extinct),  1865—67;    Fiskdale,  1867—69;    Vineyard 

Haven,   1883—85-  ,    _.„     .         o        00      xt     .u 

Farren,  William  Albert.  North  Billenca,  1879—88;  North 
Attleboro,  1899— 

Farris,  Benjamin  Willis.  Boston,  St.  Pauls,  1896— 1901, 
(acting)   1902 — 

Faunce  Daniel  Worcester.  Somerville,  tirst,  1853—54; 
Worcester,  Pleasant  Street,  1854—60;  Maiden,  First, 
1860—66;  Lynn,  Washington  Street,  1875—81;  West 
Newton,  First,   1889—93-  ^     .     ,  ,  ,    ^  e.      . 

Faunce,  William  Herbert  Perry.     Springfield,  State  Street, 

1884—89-  ^     .     ,  O  o 

Fwor  M.  P.    New  Marlboro,  1871—73 ;  Tynngham,  1877—78- 


1 62  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Fay,  Lysander.    Erving's  Grant  and  South  Orange  (extinct), 

1836 — 42;    Royalston,  1843 — 44;    Petersham  Branch,  1845; 

Wendell    (extinct),    1845;     South   Orange   and  Warwick, 

1846—47;    South  Orange,  1847 — 48;    Warwick,  1849 — 50; 

Winchendon  and  Royalston,  1853 — 68. 
Fay,   William    Newell.     Belchertown,    1856 — 68. 
Feeman,  William  E.     Hudson,   1897 — 98. 
Felton,  George  Deland.     Westminster,   1841 — 43;    Chatham, 

1844 — 45;    East  Granville,  1845 — 65. 
Ferguson,     Robert     Henry.       Boston,     Dorchester     Temple, 

1887—88. 
Field,  Samuel  Wheeler.     Methuen,  1840 — 46. 
Fielden,    Joseph    Flanders.      Winchester,    1881 — 92;     Win- 
chendon, 1896 — 
FiLLiNGHAM,  C.     Brewstcr,   1890. 
FiLMER,   Thomas   Tiesdell.     South   Framingham,    1867 — 73 ; 

Webster,  1873 — 
Fish,  Alanson.  Chelsea,  First,  1837 — 40. 
Fish,  E.  D.     New  Salem  and  Prescott   (extinct),  1853 — 54; 

Rowe,  1854 — 64. 
Fish,    Joseph    Leroy    Atwell.      Webster,    1856 — 63;     North 

Tisbury,   1863—65;    HoUiston,    1865—68;    Holyoke,  First, 

1868—72. 
Fish,  Milton  E.     Vineyard  Haven,  1901 — 
Fish,  R.  D.     Nantucket,  First,  1874—75;    Cheshire,  1875—80; 

Merrimac,  1880 — 82. 
Fish,  William  Henry.     Billerica,  First,  1875 — TJ\    Brewster, 

1878—80;     North    Oxford,    1882 — 83;     Newton,    Second 

(acting),  1893. 
Fisher,     Abiel.       Bellingham,     1816 — 26;      West     Boylston, 

1828 — 30;    Webster,  1832 — 34;    Swansea,  1838 — 40;    South 

Milford,  1846—48;    Manchaug,  1849 — 53;    Sutton,  Second, 

1856—59- 

Fisher,  R.  Ward.  Middleboro,  Third,  1894 — 95;  East  Long- 
meadow,   1895—97;    North  Attleboro,   1897 — 98. 

FisK,  Oliver  Johnson.     Swansea,  1836 — 2>7- 

Fisk,  p.  B.    Heath  (extinct),  1836—38. 

FrrcHETT,  Wilson.     West  Medford,  Shiloh,  1900 — 

FiTTz,  George  Boardman.  South  Yarmouth,  1874 — 75 ;  Savoy, 
1876—80;  Bolton.  1880—82;  Gay  Head,  1887—88;  Hali- 
fax   (extinct),   1888. 

FiTTZ,  Hervey.  Middleboro,  Central,  1832 — 36;  Marblehead, 
1839 — 41 ;  Millbury,  1841 — 43,  1846 ;  Missionary  Massachu- 
setts Baptist  Convention,  1843 — 78. 

FiTTZ,  Lonzo  Lyon.  South  Wilbraham  (extinct),  1865 — (£; 
Somerset,  1869 — 74;  Rockland,  1875 — 78;  Ashland  (act- 
ing), 1879—81;  Salem,  Calvary,  1881—83;  Halifax  (ex- 
tinct),   1890. 


PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  163 

FiTz,  William.     Haverhill,  First,  1865 — 68;    North  Attleboro, 

1872—73- 
Flanders,    Charles    Woethen.      Beverly,    First,    1840 — 50; 

Westboro,  1868—70;    Beverly  Farms,  1871 — 74. 
Flanders,  Clifton  Kimball.     Cliftondale,   1891 — 95;    Chico- 

pee.  Central,  1895 — 97. 
Fletcher,   Clifton.     North   Tewksbury,   1856 — 69;    Billerica, 

First,  1869 — 75;    Canton,   1875 — 77;    Brookville,   1878 — 86. 
Fletcher,    Joseph     Hamilton.       West     Newbury     (acting), 

1886—87;    South  Hanson,  1887—91;    Woodville,  1891—96. 
Foljambe,  Samuel  W.     South  Framingham,  1856—58;    East 

Boston,     Central     Square,     1859 — 67 ;      Boston,     Harvard 

Street,  1867—70;    Maiden,  1870 — 86. 
FoLLETT,  J.    M.     West   Boylston,    i860. 

Folsom,  Frank  Greenleaf.  Merrimacport  (extinct),  1891 — 92. 
Forbes,  C.  F.     Colerain,  First,  1862 — 64. 
FoRBUSH,     Jonathan     E.       Fayville,     1825 — 30;      Westboro, 

1830 — 32;    Attleboro,  1832 — 2>7  \    Billerica,  First,  1837 — 38; 

Westminster,  1846 — 47;    South  Danvers   (now  Peabody), 

1848—49;    Gay  Head,   1854—55. 
Ford,   David  Barnes.     Canton,   1851 — 54;    Marshfield,    First, 

1864—68. 
Ford,  L.  B.    Turner's  Falls,  1875—76 ;   Becket,  1877 — 79. 
Ford,  Smith  Thomas.     Lowell,  First,  1896 — 
Forshee,  Archibald  Alexander.     Hingham,   1901 — 
Foskett,  Harvey  Bartlett.     Adams,   1893 — 1900;    Williams- 
town,   1900 — 1901. 
Foskett,  Horace  Barnes.    Fayville,  1855 — 56. 
Foster,   Elijah.     Salisbury  and  Amesbury,   1832 — 34. 
Foster,  Joseph  Coggin.     Beverly,  First,  1856 — 7Z ',    Randolph, 

1873—82. 
Foster,  N.   P.     East  Stoughton    (now  Avon),   1855 — 56. 
Fowler,  H.    Colerain,  Second,  1884 — 88. 
Fox,  James   Butler.     Canton,   1899 — 1901. 
Francis,  James  A.     Boston,   Clarendon   Street,   1902 — 
Francis,  John.     Pittsfield,  First,  1807 — 13. 
Francis,  William  L.    Haverhill,  Calvary,  1880 — 82. 
Frary,    Milo.      Heath    (extinct),    1843 — 44;     Colerain,    First, 

1845 — 46;    Deerfield    (extinct),   1847 — 48. 
Fraser,  a.  L.     North  Bellingham   (acting),  1899. 
Frasy.    William.      East    Tisbury    (now    Vineyard    Haven), 

1863—64. 
Free,  Alfred.     Charlemont,  1868. 
Freeman,  Enoch  W.     Lowell,  First,  1828 — 34. 
Freeman,  James.    Mashpee  (formerly  Marshpee),  1803 — 06. 
Freeman,  Leonard  Alfred.    Leominster,  1883 — 86;   Haverhill, 

Mt.  Washington   (formerly  Messiah),  1886 — 94;    Orange, 

1894- 
Freeman,  Sebra  Crocker.     Shirley  (acting),  1901 — 02. 


1 64  PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Freeman,  Timothy  Giles.    West  Dedham  (now  Westwood), 

1839 — 40;    Southbridge,  Central,  1845. 
French,  Charles   Valentine.     Brookville    (acting),   1890. 
French,  James.    Holyoke,  Second,  1849 — 54. 
Frink,    Lemuel    Williams.      Marlboro,    1883 — 85;     Sharon, 

1886—88;    West   Boylston,   1888—91;     North  Tewksbury, 

1892 — 94. 
Frohock,  Sylvanus  Everett.    North  Reading  (acting),  1884; 

Hingham     (acting),     1891 ;      Springfield,     Carew     Street, 

1892 — 98. 
Frost,  C.  L.     Littleton,   1868. 
Frost,    Samuel   Tuttle.     Lexington,    1865;     West   Dedham 

(now  Westwood),  1872—73;    North  Attleboro,  1874—75; 

Gardner,  1875 — 76;   Ashland,  1888 — 91;    Palmer,  1893 — 94; 

Long  Plain,  1895 — 96. 
Fuhrmann,  Jacob  Winfried.     Vineyard  Haven,  1874 — 76. 
Fuller,    Edward   K.     Somerset,    1846 — 49;     Medford,    First, 

1849 — 53;     Reading,    Salem    Street,    1854 — 57- 
Fuller,  Edward  Milo.     Salem,  Central,  assistant  pastor,  1892 ; 

Gardner,  1892 — 97. 
Fuller,  George  E.     Adams,  1847 — 49;   Bernardston,  1849 — 53; 

Ware   (extinct),   1853—55- 
Fuller,    George    Washburn.      Chicopee,    Central,    1877 — 80; 

Hyannis,    1880—88;     Winthrop,    1888—95;     Cottage    City, 

1895 — 97;     East    Boston,    Trinity     (acting),    1899 — 1900; 

Cottage  City,  1900—02. 
Fuller,  O.  P.     Chatham,  1881—84. 

FuLLERTON,    NoAH.     Ostervillc,    1871 — 74;     Carver,    1875 — 79. 
Fulton,  H.     Pocasset,  1863 — 64. 
Fulton,    Justin    Dewey.      Boston,    Union     (now    Tremont 

Temple),  1863 — 72,',    Somerville,  First,  1894 — 97. 

Gaines,  J.  H.  Boston,  Ebenezer,  1876 — 77;  Lynn,  Union, 
1884—85. 

Gale,  Amory.     Ware   (extinct),  1846 — 50;    Lee,  1850—57. 

Gale,   S.     North  Oxford,   1847. 

Galliher,  Paul.  Rowley,  1876—78;  Littleton,  1878—80; 
Revere,  First,  1885—86;  Baldwinville,  1886—87;  South 
Yarmouth,   1895 — 96. 

Gammell,  William.     Medfield,  1810 — 22. 

Gannett,  Joseph  Henry.  East  Gloucester  (now  Chapel 
Street),  1867—74;    Fiskdale,  1876—82;    Rowley,  1882—84. 

Ga-Nun,  General  Jackson,   Savoy,   1887. 

Gardiner,  Eugene  S.,  Medfield,  1886 — 88. 

Gardner,  Benjamin  West.  Mansfield,  1855 — 58;  West  Ded- 
ham (now  Westwood),  1858—67;  North  Marshfield, 
1869—74. 

Gardner,  Frederick  Mack.    Winthrop,  1883 — 84;    Lawrence, 


PASTOKS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 65 

Second,    1884 — Qi ;    East   Boston,   Central    Square,    1892 — 

98;    Boston,  South,   1899 — 
Gardner,  George  W.     Charlestown,  First,  1861 — 72;    Marble- 
head,    1879—80;     Fitchburg,    First,    1885—86;     Waltham, 

Beth-Eden,   1888—90. 
Garner,    William    V.,    Boston,    Charles    Street     (extinct), 

1866-75. 
Garrett,  W.  H.,  Lawrence,  Olive,  1873 — 77. 
Garton,    Joseph    Vanor,    Cambridge,    Old,    1891 — 99;     West 

Somerville,  1900 — 
Gates,  Alfred.     Southwick,   1849 — 51. 
Gates,  Edwin  Lewis.     Fiskdale,  1890 — 93. 
Gates,  G.  W.     East  Brookfield,  1866—67. 
Gay,  Henry  Gordon.     Hudson,  1866 — 70;    East  Longmeadow, 

1873—76;      Southwick,     1876—78;     Woodville,    1878—83; 

Fayville,  1887 — 90;    North  Reading,  1890 — 93,  1897 — 1901. 
Gay,     Walter.       New     Bedford,     Salem     Street     (extinct), 

1891 — 93;     Haverhill,    Calvary,    1895—97;     Woburn,    St. 

John,   1897—99. 
Gear,  Hiram.     Canton,  1831 — ^2. 
Genung,  George  Frederick.     Amherst,  1881 — 84. 
GiBBS,  B.  B.    Wales,  1885—86. 
Gibson,  John   B.     Sharon,   1816;     Pembroke    (extinct)    and 

Hanson,   1828 — 30. 
Gifford,  Orrin  Phillip.     Pittsfield,  First,  1877 — 79;    Boston, 

Warren  Avenue,  1879 — 90;    Brookline,  1890 — 91. 
Gilbert,    Asahel    S.      Boston,    Bethel,    1896 — 99;     Newton, 

Second,  1902 — ■ 
Gilbert,  Isaac  Hawley.     Hyde   Park,   1870 — 75;    Norwood, 

1876;     Newton,    Second,    1877—78;     Medfield,    1878—86; 

Chicopee,   First,   1886 — 89. 
Gilbert,     Samuel  C.       Beverly      Farms,     1836;      Rockport, 

1846-47. 
GiLE,  George  Warren.     Lawrence,  Second,   1873 — 79;    Pitts- 
field,   First,   1879 — 84;    Fall  River,   Second,   1884 — 92. 
Giles,  F.  H.     Hudson,  1892 — 93. 

Giles,  J.  Henry.     Bolton,  1858—59;    Stamford,  Vt.,  i860 — 62. 
Giles,  William  Leese.     East  Longmeadow,  1897 — 98;    Cum- 

mington,  1901 — 
GiRDwooD,  John.     New  Bedford,  First,  1850 — 64. 
Given,  John.     Boston,  Independent,   1836. 
Glazier,  Joseph.     Hardwick  and   Ware    (extinct),    1832 — 36, 

1843—46;    Athol,  1836—38;    Holland   (extinct),  1839—43. 
Glazier,  Nelson  Newton.    South  Abington  (now  Whitman), 

1880—84;  Westboro  (acting),  1884—86;   Greenfield,  First, 

1887—96. 
Glover,   Samuel.     Kingston,   1810 — 25;    Randolph,    1828—29: 

Leominster,     1833 — 34;      Carver,     1838 — 40;      Marshfield, 

1842 — 45;     Halifax    (extinct),    1846. 


1 66  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Glover,  W.     Spencer,  1837 — 39;    Heath  (extinct),  1839 — 40. 

GoDDARD,  David.     Wendell,  1824 — 41 ;    Leominster,  1841—43. 

GoDDARD,  Edward  A.  Stamford,  Vt.,  1865 — 67;  Huntington, 
1868—73;  Palmer,  1874—77;  Northboro,  1877—78;  Reho- 
both,  1885—89. 

GoDDARD,  Luther.  Rochdale  (Greenville),  1820 — 23;  Boltoris 
1833—34- 

GoFF,  A.  E.  North  Tisbury,  1887 — 89;  Manchaug  and  Sutton, 
Second,  1891 — 92;  Hancock  and  Williamstown,  1893 — 94; 
Hancock,  1894 — 95- 

Going,  Jonathan.     Worcester,  First,  1815 — 2i'2- 

Goodhue,  Joseph  Addison.  Boston,  South.  1855 — 57;  Fra- 
mingham.  First,  1859 — 62;  North  Cambridge,  1862 — 64; 
Westboro,  1864—67;  Shelburne  Falls,  1867 — 68;  Danvers, 
1870—71. 

GooDNouGH,  John  R.     Whately   (extinct),   1824 — 30. 

Goodnow,  Augustus  W.  Colerain,  Second,  1851;  Royalston, 
Centre,  1852;  Stamford,  Vt.,  1855—59;  North  Sunder- 
land, 1876;    Shutesbury,  1878 — 81. 

GooDSPEED,  George  S.     Springfield,  Highland,   1887 — 88. 

Goodwin,  Edwin  Clark.     Revere,  1882 — 84. 

Goodwin,  Thomas  H.  Ashfield,  1871 ;  Winthrop,  1879;  Win- 
chendon,  1880 — 83 ;  Hanover,  1885 — 87 ;  Hanover  and 
North   Marshfield,   1887—89;    North  Marshfield,   1889— 

Goodwin,  William.  Hinsdale,  1853 — 55;  Huntington, 
1855—58;   New  Marlboro,  1858 — 65;   Tyringham,  1869—72. 

Gordon,  Adoniram  Judson.  Jamaica  Plain,  1863 — 69;  Boston, 
Clarendon  Street,  1869 — 95. 

Gordon,  Arthur  Hale.  Ipswich,  1898 — 1901  ;  Cambridge, 
Immanuel,    1901 — 

Gordon,  John.    Lowell,  First,  1886. 

GoRHAM,  Abner  Davis.  Nantucket,  Summer  Street,  1855 — 57; 
Edgartown,  1857 — 60;  Long  Plain,  i860 — 63;  Wenham, 
1863 — 92. 

GoRHAM,  G.  W.     Holyoke,  Second,  1856 — 63. 

GoucHER,  W.  G.     Southwick,  1884 — 85. 

Gould,  George  D.     Huntington,  1891 — 95. 

Gow,  George  Boardman.  South  Groton  (extinct),  1858 — 61; 
Gloucester,  1864 — 67;  Worcester,  First,  1867 — 72;  Mill- 
bury,  1874 — 80. 

Gow,   John   Russell.      Somerville,    Perkins    Street,    1895 — 

Grabiel,  Moses  Allen.     West  Medway,  1899 — 1901. 

Graffam,  Asa  Davis.  Pocasset,  1900 — 1902;  North  Easton, 
1902 — 

Grafton,  Benjamin  C.  Plymouth.  1824 — 29;  Seekonk  (ex- 
tinct), 1830 — 31;  Taunton,  Second,  1832 — 34;  Rowley, 
1839 — 41;    Somerset,  1845 — 46;    Medford,  First.  1846 — 47. 

Grafton,  Joseph.     Newton,   First,   1802—36. 

Grant,  D.  H,     Shutesbury,  1836 — 40;    Egremont,  1842 — 44. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  167 

Grant,  James.     Springfield,  State  Street,  1890 — 93;    Pittsfield, 

Morningside,  1895 — 1900;    Watertown,  1900 — 
Grant,  John.     West  Springfield,  First,  1819 — 22,. 
Grant,    Roland    Dwight.      Wakefield.     1883^88;     Beverly, 

First,  1888 — 90;    Boston,  Harvard  Street,  1890. 
Grant,    Stillman    Bailey.      Adams,    1849 — 52;     Fitchburg, 

First,  1867 — 72>- 
Grant,  William   Francis.     Stoneham,   1894 — 99!    Mansfield, 

1899— 
Graves,  Henry  Clinton.  Charlestown,  Bunker  Hill,  1858 — 63; 

Fall  River,  Second,  1874—80;    Haverhill,  First,  1880—86; 

New   Bedford,    North,    1886 — 95. 
Graves,  Hir.\m  Atwell.     Springfield,  First,  1837 — 40;    Lynn, 

First,  1840 — 41. 
Graves,    Joseph    Muzzy.      West    Royalston    and    Warwick, 

1824;     Webster,    1839 — 40;     Tewksbury,    1844 — 45;     East 

Boston,    Central    Square,    1845 — 47 ;     Methuen,    1847 — 49 ; 

Allston,     Brighton     Avenue,     1854 — 56;      Newton,     First, 

1856-57. 
Gray,  Edgar  Harkness.    Shelburne  Falls,  1844 — 46,  1850 — 63, 

1869—73. 
Gray,  Jeduthan.     Egremont,  1802 — 05. 
Gray,  Walter  Vreeland.    Shirley.  1890. 
Green,  A.  E.     Pelham  (extinct),  1844. 
Green,   Bowley.     Lowell,   Worthen    Street,    1895 — 99. 
Green,  George  F.    Lawrence,  First,  1900 — 
Green,  H.  R.     Cambridge,   Second.   1879 — 82. 
Green,  John.     Rochdale   (Greenville),  1830 — 2i7\    Shutesbury. 

1841 — 46;      Bernardston,     1846 — 48;      Florida,     1848 — 52; 

Chester  (now  Huntington),  1852 — 54. 
Green,   J.    M.     Springfield,    Second    (now    Chicopee,    First), 

1837-38. 
Greene,  Albert.     Sutton,  First,  1885 — 88. 
Greene,    Benjamin     Allen.      Westboro,     1875 — 82;     Lynn, 

Washington  Street,   1882 — 97. 
Greene,  Caleb.    Dighton,  1828—30 ;   Sharon.  1832. 
Greene,  Henry  K.     Charlestown.  First,  1842 — 44. 
Greene,  John.     Leicester,  1837 — 40;    Leverett  and  Montague, 

1861—62. 
Greul,  Frederick  B.     Waltham,  First,  1895 — 
Griffin,  Richard.    Granville,  1836. 
Grimes,  Isaac  W.     West   Springfield.    1884 — 89;     Stoneham, 

1891 — 94 ;    Cambridge,  Immanuel,  1894 — 1901 ;    Fitchburg, 

Highland,  1902 — 
Grimes,  Leonard  A.     Boston,  Twelfth,  1848 — 72. 
Grose,  Howard  Benjamin.     Lynn.  Washington  Street    (act- 
ing), 1897 — 98;    Jamaica  Plain,  1900 — 
Grosvenor,  Cyrus  P.     Boston,  First,   1827 — 30;    Salem,  Cen- 


1 68  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

tral,    1830 — 34;     Billerica,    First,    1834 — 35;     Southbridge, 

Central,  1844 — 47. 
Grow,  James.     Webster,  1834 — 35  5    Sutton,  Second,  1851 — 52. 
Grytzell,  Daniel.     Gardner,  Swede,  1898--99. 
Guild,  H.  A.    Hancock,  1865—66. 
Guild,  J.  E.     South  Groton   (extinct),   1852;    West  Tisbury, 

1853—54;    Chatham,  1855. 
Guilford,  H.  P.     Reading,  Salem  Street,  1865 — 66. 
Guilford,    W.    M.      Sterling,    1852 — 53;     Roxbury,    Tremont 

(extinct),  1854—55. 
Gumbart,  Adolph  Samuel.    Boston,  Dudley  Street,  1890 — 99. 
Gunn,  David  Brainerd.     Kingston,  1883;    Sterling,  1885 — 87; 

Ipswich,  1894. 
Gunning,  J.  H.     Boston,  Harvard  Street,  1884 — 88. 
Gunnison,  George  W.     Athol,   1852 — 53. 
GuRNEY,  L.   P.     South  Hanson,   1856. 
GuRNEY,  Preston.    Chelsea,  Carey  Avenue,  1869 — y^ ;   Wollas- 

ton,    1888 — 1902. 
GusHEE,  Wallace  Wadsworth.     North  Egremont,  1902 — 
Gussman,    William.      Cheshire    and    Lanesboro,    1890 — 93; 

Westminster,  1893 — 99. 

Hackett,  William  W.  Pocasset,  1887—88;  Fells,  1889—90, 
1897 — 1900;  Wales,  1891 — 92;  Ayer,  1896 — 97;  South 
Medford,  1900 — 

Hafer,  Nathaniel  Thomas.     North  Oxford,  1902 — 

Hague,  William.  Boston,  First,  1831 — 2>7\  Boston,  Federal 
Street  (afterwards  Rowe  Street,  now  Clarendon  Street), 
1840 — 48;  Jamaica  Plain,  1848 — 50;  Boston,  Charles 
Street  (extinct),  1862 — 64;  Boston,  Shawmut  Avenue 
(extinct),  1865 — 69;    Wollaston,  1877 — 87. 

Hainer,  E.  a.     Lynn,  East,  1894 — 98. 

Haines,  Charles  Witcraft.     Palmer,   1899 — 1901. 

Hahn,  Benjamin  Daviese.     Springfield,  State  Street,  1893 — 

Hale,  E.     Ashfield,  1840 — 42. 

Hale,  Sumner.     Beverly  Farms,   1842 — 48. 

Hall,  A.    Boston,  Ebenezer,  1875,  1880. 

Hall,  Abijah.  Chatham,  1861 — 62;  North  Attleboro, 
1863 — 66;    Leominster,   1866 — 68. 

Hall,  Arad.  Heath  (extinct),  1824;  Rowe,  1825 — 35;  Ash- 
field, 1839 — 40;    Chatham,  1857 — 60. 

Hall,  Ira.  Tyringham,  1828 — 29;  Lee  and  Tyringham, 
1830 — 2>^;  West  Springfield,  Second  (now  Holyoke, 
First),   1836 — 2)7- 

Hall,  King  S.    Methuen,  1862 — 66. 

Hall,  Lamartine  Adelbert.  East  Gloucester  (now  Chapel 
Street),  1881—84. 

Hall,  Silas.  Warren  (extinct),  1815 — 16;  New  Bedford, 
First,      1817;      Middleboro,     First,      1819—22,     1839 — 46, 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  l6g 

1850-51;  Attleboro,  1823-26  1838;  Taunton,  Second 
(now  Winthrop  Street),  1828 ;  Abington  (now  Whit- 
man),   1830-34;     Sharon,    1836-37;     Raynham,    1852, 

HAL?''w?LUAM'VmTE.     Edgartown,  183^40,  i860;    pastor 
^     Marlifidd    Bar?e,  Gloucester,  East  Haverhill,  Hardwick, 
Heath.  Rowe. 

^^J^-  ,tT%f.f'- East     Ablngon      (Roc|U^d), 

1868—72;      Winchendon,     1872—80;      Holden,     iS«o— 85. 

Petersham,  1886.  T»a^^L_f^n 

Hamilton,   James   Eugene.     Vineyard   Haven,   1886-^0. 
Handy,  Nymphas.     Middleboro,  Second   (extinct),  1834-41. 
Hanson,  Chakles  Veranus      Peabody    1868-79. 
Hapgood,  Ephraim.     South  Hanson,  i««4— »5.  ,o^,_a7  • 

Haradon,  John  S      Manchaug,  1859-64;    Holden    1865-67, 

South  Groton  (extinct),  1870— 71 ;   Ayer,  1871—72. 
Harding      Christopher     James.       Rowe     and     Charlemont, 
^™7^9^;      Stamford,    Vt.,     1898-1900;      Three    Rivers, 

Hard?nVk"n.    Cheshire  and  Lanesboro,  1893-94;   Cheshire, 

HarJ)?ng,  John  Aberdien.    North  Easton  (acting),  1898-99; 
Xndville    (acting),    1900;     Charlestown,  First    (assistant 

pastor),    1901—02. 
Hardy,  Irad.     Canton,  1902— 

Harlow,  Robert  Henry.    Osterville,  i859-  , 

hIrlow    Truman  Oscar.  .  Somerset,   1897-99;    West  Med- 

ford    1900-01;    Cambridge,  Second  (acting),  1902- 
Harrell,  Jesse.    Cambridge,  Union,  188^  Manchester 

Harriman,    Arthur    Ernest.      Sterling,    1895,     Manchester, 

%7;    Leominster,    1 897-1901 ;    East  Lynn,    1901- 
Harriman    N.  H.     Maiden,  First.  1890—91. 

Randolph    (acting),   1897—98.  ^     , 

Harris    Benjamin  N.     Rochdale   (Greenville),  182b,    Kock 
^ort,     1845-46;      Hanover,     1846;      Halifax     (extinct), 

HAR^fs^  Benjamin  R.     Kingston,  First,   1893-94;    Charles- 
town  Bunte  Hill,  1896-1902;   Boston,  Immanuel,  1902- 
■Rabrts    Edward  N.     Barnstable,  1832.  ^.      ,  ,       o        „.-. 

HaS  s   EuTah  Edgar.    Savoy,  1893-^4;  Hmsdalei894-95; 
Ips'wich    1895-96;    West  Medway,  1896-^7;    Still  River, 

Har^^s^^^enry  Howell.     Boston,  Twelfth,  188^-92. 


I/O  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Harris,  J.  M.    Haverhill,  Second,  1843 — 46. 

Harris,  Norman.     Chesterfield    (extinct).   1846. 

Harris,  Spencer  B.  Springfield,  Pilgrim  (Third),  1873; 
Lynn,  Union,  1887 — 91. 

Hart,  John  D.     Southwick,  1825 — 26. 

Hartman,  John  Harrison.  Canton,.  1870 — 74;  Salisbury 
and  Amesbury,  1874 — 78. 

Hartshorn,   Joseph    Charles.     Georgetown,    1844 — 48. 

Hartwell,  Jesse.     Sandisfield,  1802 — 28. 

Harvey,  Adiel.     Westboro,   1838 — 45  ;    Plymouth,   1845 — 58. 

Hascall,  William  Hosmer  Shailer.  Fall  River,  First  (as- 
sistant  pastor),    1890 — 94,   pastor,    1895 — 96. 

Haskell,  Elihu  Burritt.  Worcester,  South,  1890 — 93 ; 
Andover    (acting  pastor),   1893 — 94. 

Haskell,  Joseph.     Shutesbury,  1858 — 59;    Hinsdale,  1861 — 62. 

Haskell,  S.  H.     Egremont,  1884 — 85. 

Haskins,  John  R.  Shutesbury,  1861 ;  West  Somerville, 
1876—78;  West  Acton,  1878—83;  Merrimac,  1883; 
Belchertown,   1894 — 95. 

Hastings,  Stephen  Goodwin.     Belchertown,  1880 — 85. 

Hatch,  Charles  G.  Edgartown,  1849 — 50;  Brewster, 
1854 — 55;     South   Dartmouth    (extinct),    1856 — 58. 

Hatch,  C.  J.     Gay  Head.  1861 — 64. 

Hatch,  Leonard  Bradford.  Manchester,  1863 — 67 ;  Edgar- 
town,  1868 — -74;  South  Abington  (now  Whitman), 
1875 — 77;  East  Stoughton  (now  Avon),  1878 — 83;  Lex- 
ington,  1887 — 91 ;    Braintree,  1894 — 98 ;    Mattapan,  1899 — 

Hatch,  Salmon.     Egremont,   1838 — 40. 

Hatfield,  Byron  Ulric.     Georgetown,  1891 — 95. 

Hatfield,  Edgar.  North  Leverett,  1895 — 99;  North  and  West 
Tisbury,  1899 — 

Hathorne,  Benjamin  Herbert.    Harvard.  1834. 

Haughwort,  p.  B.     Fall  River,  First,   1856 — 69. 

Hawkins,  George  W.    Fiskdale,  1900 — 01. 

Hawley,  D.  S.  West  Tisbury,  1857 — 59;  Mashpee,  1859 — 61; 
Pocasset,  1861. 

Hayden,  E.  H.     Chelmsford,  First.   1886—87. 

Hayden,  Lucius.     Shutesbury,   1885 — 87. 

Haynes,  Aaron.  Stamford,  Vt.,  1814;  Medway,  1836 — 39; 
Southboro,  1841 — 44;  Littleton.  1846 — 47;  Braintree, 
1847—48. 

Haynes,  Dudley  Cammet.  Marblehead.  1837 — 39;  Hyannis, 
1848-52. 

Haynes,  Emory  J.  Boston,  Union  (now  Tremont  Temple), 
1885—90. 

Haynes,  E.  M.  Leverett  and  Montague,  1859 — 60;  Palmer, 
1865—68. 

Haynes,   Myrun  Wilbur.     Marblehead,   1882 — 84. 

Hazelton,   Henry   Hubbard.     Wales,    1849 — 51. 


PAS  Tons   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  171 

Hazlewood,  Francis  Tomlinson.    Lynn,  First,  1884 — QO- 

Heath,  Frank  Arthur.     West  Acton,  1888—91. 

Heath,  Fred  Elbridge.    Sterling,  1895 — 97;  Spencer,  1897 — 98; 

Weston,  1900 — 
Heath,  Hugh  A.    Wakefield,  1901 — 
Heath,  William.    North  Reading,  1837 — 41 ;   Shelburne  Falls, 

1842 — 44. 
Hebard,  Asa.     Leyden  (extinct),  1824 — 28. 
Hedden,    Benjamin    Franklin.      Holmes    Hole     (extinct), 

1844—47. 
Henry,  Foster.     Tyringham,  1852 — 57;    Danvers,  1862 — 65. 
Henson,   Thomas.     Boston,   Independent    (now    St.    Paul's), 

1855—58;    Springfield,  Third.   1882—83. 
Herman,  Neil  Edward.     North  Bellingham  and  West  Med- 

way,  1898 — 99. 
Herrick,  Everett  Carleton.     Charlestown,   First,   1901 — 
Herrick,  J.  S.     Tyngsboro   (extinct).  1845 — 46. 
Herring,  Charles  ]\1acomber.     North  Oxford,  1858 — 59. 
Hersey,  Simeon.     Westfield,  Central,  1837 — 38. 
Hervey,  G.  W.    Canton  ,1858—61. 
Hervey,  Nathaniel.     Marblehead,  1836;    Cambridge,  Second, 

1837 — 40;    Andover,   1840 — 41;    Jamaica  Plain,   1841 — 42; 

Westboro,  1852 — 53. 
Heywood,  Henry  j\I.    Florida,  1879 — 81;    Granville,  1882 — 84; 

Agawam,  1884 — 89. 
Hibbard,    George    Leonard.      Fiskdale,    1894 — 97!     Grafton, 

First,  1897 — 
Hibbard,  Lewis  Baker.     Somerville,  First,  1867 — 68 ;    Adams, 

1872-74- 

Hickok,  Charles  Henry.  New  Marlboro,  i86g — 71 ;  Sterling, 
1871 — 72;  Pocasset  (acting),  1873 — 75;  Quincy  Point 
(extinct),  1878—80;  West  Harwich,  1880—84;  Sterling, 
1890 — 94. 

HiDEN,  James  Conway.   New  Bedford.  First,  1887 — 88. 

Higby,  John.    Granville,  1838;   Sandisfield,  1841 — 45. 

Higgins,  Alexander  i\L\RTiN.  Leominster,  1859—61 ;  South 
Framingham,  1865 — 66;  Chicopee,  Central,  1867 — 69;  East 
Gloucester,  1874 — jy  ;  Lee,  1877 — 79 ;  Lee  and  Tyringham, 
1880—81;  Ashfield,  1881—83;  Swampscott,  1884—86; 
Cliftondale  (acting),  1900 — 01. 

Hill,  Alfred  S.  New  Marlboro,  1897—98;  North  Middle- 
boro,  1901 — 

Hill,  E.  S.  North  Belchertown  (extinct),  1855 — 56;  Wood- 
ville,  1856—62;  Brewster,  1862 — 64;  Middleboro,  Third, 
1864—68;    Becket,  1868—71;    South  Wilbraham  (extinct), 

1871-73- 

Hill,  Johnson  Washington.  Boston,  Twelfth,  1898;  Ever- 
ett, Zion,  1899 — 190T. 

Hill,  Luther  Dana.     Reading,  Salem  Street,  1870 — 74. 


172  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Hill,  Samuel.  Groveland  (extinct),  1876 — "/T,  Somerville, 
Broadway,  1883 — 84. 

Hill,  Stephen  Prescott.     Haverhill,  First,  1832 — 34. 

HiLLARD,  Oscar  A.  Salem,  Calvary,  1892 — 95;  South  Boston, 
Fourth  Street  (extinct),  1895 — 97. 

HiMES,  Paul.  Stamford,  Vt.,  1811 — 12;  Chesterfield,  Second 
(extinct),    1822 — 24. 

Hinckley,  Henry.  Winchester,  1862 — 66;  Groveland  (ex- 
tinct), 1866 — 70;  Cambridge,  Broadway,  1870 — 78;  East 
Lynn,  1878^3;  Roslindale,  1893 — 99;  Boston,  Ruggles 
Street    (assistant  pastor),    1899 — 1901. 

HiNKLEY,  Harry  E.  Brewster,  1899 — 1902;  New  Marlboro 
and  Sandisfield,  1902 — 

Hiscox,  Edwin  T.     Northampton,   1873 — 74. 

Hiscox,  Henry  Orrie.     Maiden,  1892 — 1902. 

HjELM,  R.   A.     Worcester.   First   Swede.    1881—82,   1887. 

Hjertstrom,  J.  W.     Worcester,  First  Swede,   1891 — 95. 

Hobart,  I.  N.     North  Oxford,  1849 — 51. 

HoBBS,  L.  L.     Chicopee,  First,  1890 — 92. 

Hodge,  Henry  C.     Winchester,  1899 — 

Hodges,  Joseph,  Jr.  Weston,  1835 — 4° ;  Amherst,  1840 — 41 ; 
Colerain,  First,  1841 — 43;  Three  Rivers,  1843 — 47;  East 
Brookfield,    1847 — 52;     North   Oxford,    1852 — 55. 

HoLBROOK,  Charles  Francis.  West  Boylston,  1862 — 65; 
Dan  vers,  1865 — 70,  1889 — 98. 

HoLBROOK,  John.  Scituate,  First,  1837;  North  Reading, 
1842 — 43;    Norton,  1846 — 48. 

Holland,  Theodore  B.  Orange,  1872 — 74;  West  Newton, 
First,    1875 — 78. 

Hollingsworth,  James  Harvey.     Rowley,  1890 — 94. 

Holloway,   Edwin   S.     Shelburne  Falls,   1889 — 90- 

Holm,  A.  G.     Brockton,  Swede,  1885. 

Holman,  George  W.  Holliston,  1869 — 70;  Cambridge,  Sec- 
ond, 1875 — 78;  Newton,  Second,  1889 — 90;  Amherst, 
1892 — 96. 

Holman,  John  Wesley.  Three  Rivers,  1875 — 76;  West  Har- 
wich, 1882— S5. 

Holman  Sullivan  L.     Worcester,  Pleasant  Street,  1875 — 82. 

Holman,  William   O.     Charlestown,  Bunker  Hill,   1874 — 81. 

Holmes,  John  S.  East  Lynn,  1867 — yj;  Worcester,  Adams 
Square,  1898 — 1902. 

Holmes,  Lewis  M.  Edgartown,  1843;  Canton,  1844 — 46; 
Groton,  1846—49;  Barre,  1849—58;  Middlefield,  1858—64; 
Scituate,  First.  1864 — 66 ;  Rockport,  1867 ;  Rochdale 
(Greenville),  1869 — 76. 

HoLROYD,  John.    Danvers,  1832 — 37. 

Holt,  Charles  Thomas.  Manchester,  1879 — 81 ;  East  Brook- 
field,  1881— 91. 

Holt,    Frank    Milton.     Lynn,    Essex    Street,    1894— 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 73 

Holt,    Kilbourn.      Ashland,    1856 — 60 ;     Kingston,    i860 — 6^  ; 

Bolton,  1863—68;   Long  Plain,  1868—70;   Barre,  1877—82; 

Petersham,    1882 — 85. 
HoLYOKE,  Edward  O.     Pittsfield,  First,  1884 — 87. 
HoNiGH,    Jacob    Cornelius.      Belchertown,    1890 — 91 ;     Cam- 
bridge, First,  assistant  pastor,  1891 — 93. 
Hooper,  Noah,  Jr.     Woburn,  First,  1837 — 40;    Newburyport, 

1855—60. 
Hopkins,  Adoniram  Judson.     Georgetown,  1887 — 91 ;    North 

Uxbridge,  1891 — 
Hopkins,    Fr.\nk    Leslie.      Fayville,    1891 — 94 ;  Baldwinville, 

1899— 
Hopper,  A.  M.     Charlestown,  First,  1855 — 57. 
HoPWOOD,  W.     Huntington,   1862^-63. 

HORR,    George    Edwin.      Chicopee,    Central,    1858 — 61 ;     Wor- 
cester, Main  Street,  1877 — 81 ;    Cambridge,  Charles  Street 

(now    Immanuel),    1882 — 83. 
HoRR,   George  Edwin,  Jr.     Charlestown,   First,   1884 — 91. 
HoRTON,  JoTHAM  W.  Swansea,  1861 — 63,  1876 — 81 ;  Long  Plain, 

1864— 68;    Dighton,   1868 — 70;    South  Hanson,   1870—72; 

Franklin,  1872—73. 
Hotaling,  S.  p.     Hinsdale,  1895;    Stamford,  Vt.,  1897 — 99. 
HoTCHKiss,  V.  R.     Fall  River,  First,  1846 — 48. 
Hough,   Alling.      Springfield,    First,    1822;     West   Boylston, 

1823. 
Hough,  George  H.     New  Bedford,  First,  1814 — 15. 
Hough,  Joseph.     Springfield,  First,   1825. 
Houghton,    Josiah.      Newbury   and    Newburyport,    1824 — 28. 
House,  Thomas  Jefferson  Bradner.    Boston,  Harvard  Street, 

1870 — 72;      Lowell,     Fifth     Street,     1873 — y6;      Methuen, 

1877 — 83;    Everett,  Glendale   (acting),  1900 — 1902. 
Hovey,    Arthur    Judson.      Stoneham,    1872 — 87 ;     Raynham, 

1893 — 94;    Groton,  1894--98. 
Howard,  Johnson.     Woodville,  1840 — 41,  1863 — 66. 
Howard,      Thompson     Archibald.        Chelmsford,      Central, 

18S9 — 92. 
Howe,  Phineas.    Heath,  1832—35. 
Howe,  Phineas,  Jr.     Somerville,  First,  1852. 
Howe,  Sereno.     Hingham,  1842 — 49;   Lowell,  Third,  1849 — 56; 

Marshfield,   First,    1856 — 62;    Rockland,    1862—67. 
Howe,   William.      Boston,    Union    (now   Tremont   Temple), 

1845 — 59 ;     Cambridge,    Broadway,    1863 — 70. 
Howell,  George  R.     Nantucket,  Summer  Street,   1859. 
Howes,    Martin    Stillman.      Colerain,    First    and    Second, 

1890 — 91 ;   Greenfield,  First,  1899 — 1901. 
HoYT,     Daniel    Webster.      Amherst,     1874 — 80;      Millbury, 

1880^—89;    Worcester,  Adams  Square,  1889 — 98. 
Hoyt,  Edwin  Palmer.     Beverly  Farms,  1890 — 95. 


174     PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

HoYT,  Wayland.     Pittsfield,  First,  1863 — 64;    Boston,  Shaw- 

mut  Avenue    (extinct),   1874 — 76. 
Hubbard,  H.  G.    Chatham,  1864 — 65. 
Hubbard,  John,  Jr.     Lowell,  Third   (extinct),  1859 — 60. 
Hubbard,  William.     Gay  Head,  1824 — 26;  Middleboro,  Third, 

1826 — 30;     Goshen    (extinct),    1832 — 2)1    (with    Whately, 

1833). 
HuBBELL,  E.  D.     Egremont,  1834 — 36. 
HuBBELL,  William  N.     Springfield,  First,  1900 — 
HucKiNGS,  James.  South  Reading  (now  Wakefield),  1832 — 33; 

Andover,   1833—35. 
Hudson,  Birney  Stillman.     Easton,  First,  1894 — 95. 
Hughes,  Adoniram  Judson.     North  Grafton,  1890 — 93 ;    East 

Boston,  Central  Square,  1899 — 
Hughes,     J.     H.       Franklin     Park,     1887—88;      Cliftondale, 

1888-^0. 
Hull,  John  Mervin.     Kingston,  1886 — 93;   Weston,  1893 — 99. 
Humphrey,  Edward.    Haverhill,  Second,  1857 — 61 ;   Plymouth, 

1863 — 67;    East  Granville,   1869—71. 
HuMPSTONE,    William.      Williamstown,    1879 — 80. 
Hungate,  Jesse  A.     Shelburne  Falls,  1899 — 
Hunt,  Ebenezer  Warren.     Fall  River,  Second,   1880 — 83. 
Hunt,  Edward  T.     Adams,   1858 — 62;    Cheshire,   1867 — 68. 
Hunt,  Emory  William.     Boston,  Clarendon  Street,  1900 — 01, 
Hunt,  George  Langford.     Barre,  1863 — 64;    Athol,  1864 — 67; 

Northampton,  1867 — 70. 
Hunt,  John  M.     Holland  (extinct),  1824 — 28;    Wales,  1830; 

East    Longmeadow,    1836 — 40;     Wilbraham    and    Monson 

(extinct),    1841 — 42,    1848;    Westfield,   Second,    (extinct), 

1852 — 53  ;    Wendell,   1856 — 61. 
Hunt,    Nathan.      Dorchester,    Blaney    Memorial,    1882 — 90; 

Quincy,  Calvary,  and  East  Milton,  1890 — 94. 
Hunt,   Orrin   Robbins.     West   Townsend,   1874 — T] ;     South 

Wilbraham    (extinct),  and  East  Longmeadow,   1877 — 78; 

Hampden    and    East    Longmeadow,     1878 — 81 ;      Palmer, 

1882—85. 
Hunt,  Ralph  Melbourne.    Jamaica  Plain,  1888 — 1900. 
Hunter,     James     Pinkerton.       Chicopee,     First,     1883 — 88; 

Conway,  1889 — 91. 
HuRD,  James  Christie.     Medford,  First,  1869 — 70. 
Hurlbut,  Benjamin  Franklin.     Granville,  1896 — 
Hurst,  William.    West  Tisbury,  1870 — 72;    South  Yarmouth, 

1872—73;    Mashpee,   1881—85. 
Hussey,    a.    C.      Grafton,    First,    1872 — 79;     Northampton, 

1879 — 92;    West  Boylston,  1892 — 95. 
HuTCHiNS,  Almon  J.     Holliston,  1899 — 1902. 
Hutchins,    Hiram.      Charlestown,    High    Street     (extinct), 

1850—57;    Roxbury,  Tremont   (extinct),  1857 — 58. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  I/S 

HuTCHixsoN,  Charles  S.    Weston,  1891—92;   Beverly  Farms, 

1900 — 
Hutchinson,  Enoch.    Framingham,  First,  1840 — 41- 
Hutchinson,  Franklin.    Framingham,  First,  1882 — 
Hutchinson,  Joseph.     South  Hanson,  1858—60;   Russell  and 

Blandford,     1862—63;      Russell,     1864—65;      Middleboro, 

First,  1865—74- 
Hyde,  Edgar  Rhuel.  Turner's  Falls,  1900—02 ;  Clmton,  1902— 
Hylan,  Albert  Edward.    Westboro,  1895— 1901. 

Ide,  George  Barton.     Boston,  Federal  Street  (now  Clarendon 

Street),  1836—38;    Springfield,  First,  1853—71. 
Illsley,  James  William.     Wenham,  1895—97. 
Ingersoll,  R.   p.     Cheshire,   1900. 
Ives,  Dwight.     Springfield,  First,  1836—37. 

Jackson,   Abraham.     Hinsdale,   1811—37. 
Jackson,  Charles  L.    Whitman,  1901— 
Jackson,  E.    Lynn,  Union,  1886.    _  ^      >t        r,  j 

Jackson,  Henry.     Charlestown,  First,  1822—36;    New   Bed- 
ford. First,   1838—45;    Somerset,  1846. 
Jackson,  W^illiam.     New  Bedford,  Second,   1855—59;    New 

Bedford,   Salem   Street,   1859—70. 
Jacobs,  Bela.   Somerset,  1809—10;  Cambridge,  First,  1824—30. 
Jacobs,   William    Bela.     Newburyport,    1836—39;    Hyanms, 

1839 — 44. 
Jean-Jacques,    Condillac.      Woburn,    St.    John,    1893—96; 

Boston,  Calvary,  1896—97. 
James,  Richard  S.    West  Newton,  1869—70.    _ 
Jameson,  T.  C.    Boston,  Tremont  Street  (extinct),  1853—54; 

:\Ielrose,  First,  1856—57. 
Jansen,  O.  W.    Dalton  and  Hinsdale,  1892. 
Jefferson,  Arthur  Willis.     Northampton,  1875— 77 1    l^rank- 

lin,  1882—83. 
Jeffrey,  Reuben.     Nantucket,  1847—48.  .,       , 

Jencks,  Erasmus  Norcross.    Ashfield,  1868—70;  Leverett  and 

Alontague,  1870 — 72. 
Jenks,  Thomas  T.    Florida,  1857—61.  ^^  .  ^  ,    r^  .      -n 

Jfnner,    John    Hugh.      Barnstable,    Third,    and    Osterville, 

1892—95  ;    West  Springfield.  1895— iQOi. 
Jennings,    John.      Beverly,    1834—36;     Grafton,    1836—42; 

Worcester,    Pleasant    Street,    1842—49;     Fitchburg,    l^irst, 

1851—55;   Westfield,  Central,  1862—71. 
Jennings,  Russell.     Billerica,  First,  1833— 34- 
Jerome,  Edward  Miles.     Northampton,  1860-61;    Westfield, 

Central,  1869—70.  „         _  .       .  „ 

Johnson,  Elias.    Sunderland  and  Montague,  1825 ;   Princeton 

and  Leominster.   1828.  ^,,0        qq 

Johnson,  Franklin.     Cambridge,  Old,  1874— »b. 


1/6  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Johnson,  Gove  Griffith.     Pittsfield,  First,  1900 — 02. 

Johnson,  H.  H.     New  Bedford,  Second   (extinct),  1876 — yy. 

Johnson,  Herbert  S.  Pittsfield,  First,  1893 — 99!  Boston, 
Warren  Avenue,  1899 — 

Johnson,  J.  O.     Haverhill,  Calvary,  1889 — 90. 

Johnson,  J.  S.     Brewster,  1889. 

Johnson,  Millard  Fillmore.  Foxboro,  1879 — 89;  Middle- 
boro,   Central,   1889 — 98;    Medford,  First,   1898-— 1900. 

Johnson,  Robert  Gray.  Westminster,  1867 — 71 ;  Holliston, 
1871—75;  Littleton,  1883—88;  Dighton,  1888--91 ;  West 
Medway,  1891 — 96. 

Johnson,  Tillman  Bowden.  Lynn,  First,  1891 — 1902;  Dor- 
chester Temple,  1902 — 

Johnson,  Wakeman  G.  Stamford,  Vt.,  1830;  Williamstown 
and   Lanesboro,    183 1 — 36. 

Johnson,    William    Henry.      Billerica,    First,    1892 — 94. 

Johnston,  James.     Framingham,   1842 — 46. 

Johnston,  James  Arthur.     Boston,  Centre  Street,  1898 — 

Jones,  Charles  J.  Jr.     New  Bedford,  North,  1901 — 

Jones,  Daniel.     Pocasset,  1876 — 77. 

Jones,  Frank  John.    West  Springfield,  1893 — 94, 

Jones,  Henry  H.     Brockton,  Messiah,   1897 — 

Jones,   Henry    Martyn.     New    Marlboro,    1856 — 60. 

Jones,  Howard  Malcolm.     Shelburne  Falls,  1879—83. 

Jones,  John  Davis  Edmands.  Worcester,  First,  1855 — 59; 
Grafton,  Second,  1864 — 75. 

Jones,  Josiah  Frederick.  Sandisfield,  1856 — 59;  Ware 
(extinct),    1859 — 60. 

Jones,  Nelson  Bishop.  Leverett  and  Montague,  1833 — 27 '< 
Hardwick  and  Ware  (extinct),  1839 — 42;  Three  Rivers, 
1842 — 43;  Manchaug.  1843 — 45;  Sutton,  Second,  1846; 
Shutesbury,  1849 — 50;  New  Salem  and  Prescott  (extinct), 
1864 — 67;     North  Leverett   and    Montague,    1867 — 68. 

Jones,  Nelson  Bishop,  Jr.  Canton,  1879 — 81 ;  East  Boston, 
Trinity,  1881 — 90;  Reading,  1890 — 93;  Mattapan,  1896 — 99. 

Jones,  William  Green.     Boston,  Centre  Street,  1892 — 98. 

Joy,  Frederick  B.  Leverett  and  Montague,  1865 ;  South 
Yarmouth,  1881 — 82;  Three  Rivers,  1882 — 87;  East  Long- 
meadow,   1887—88. 

Judd,  T.  O.    East  Longmeadow,  1867 — 72. 

Jutten,  David  Benjamin.  Boston,  South,  1884 — 93;  Fall 
River,  Second,  1893 — 

Kallgren,  Andrew.     Norwood,  Swede,  1900 — 

Kalloch,  L  S.     Boston,  Tremont  Street   (extinct),  1855 — 59. 

Keach,  Israel.     Sandisfield,  1816 — 24. 

Keely,  George.     Haverhill,  First,  1824 — 30. 

Keely,  Josiah.    Wenham,  1845 — 52. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 77 

Keely,   Thomas    Ebenezer.      Kingston,    1842 — 53;     Medford, 

First,   1854 — 57;    Danvers,  1857 — 61. 
Keese,  William  Amasa.    Salem,  Calvary,  1877 — 83;   Chelsea, 

Carey  Avenue,  1883 — 88. 
Kelley,    Jeremiah.       Middleboro,    First    and    Third,     1830; 

Pembroke    (extinct)    and   Hanson,    1831 — 22i'>    Nantucket, 

Summer  Street,  1836 — 2)7 'y    Halifax  (extinct),  1847 — 48. 
Kellogg,  Benoni  Francis.     West  Townsend,  1884 — 187 ;    East 

Stoughton   (Avon),  1887 — 90. 
Kellogg,  H.  F.     West  Townsend,  1885. 
Kellogg,  N.  J\I.     Plainfield   (extinct),   1841. 
Kelly,  Edmund.     New  Bedford,  Second  (extinct),  1849 — 50, 

1859 — 62;     Lawrence,    Olive,    1871 — 72;     West    Newton, 

Myrtle,   1875—76. 
Kelton,  William  H.     Scituate,  First,  1868 — 70. 
Kemp,  Richard.     Sterling,  1900. 

Kemp,  Z.  W.    Stamford,  Vt.,  1869;   West  Royalston,  1871—72. 
Kempton,  Austin  Tremaize.     Sharon,  1893 — 95 ;    Dorchester, 

Stoughton   Street,  assistant  pastor,   1895—96;    Fitchburg, 

Highland,  1897 — 1901. 
Kendall,    Ezra.     Kingston,    1805 — 07;    Dunstable    (extinct), 

1809. 
Kennard,  Joseph  Spencer.    Woburn,  1862 — 64;   East  Boston, 

Central  Square,  1878 — 82. 
Kenney,  Ira  E.     East  Tisbury  (now  Vineyard  Haven),  1849; 

Sterling,  1850. 
Kenney,  Joel.     Wenham,   1838 — 39;    Fiskdale    (Sturbridge), 

1841 — 43;    Conway,   1845 — 46;    West   Springfield,   Second 

(now  Holyoke,  First),  1846 — 47. 
Kenney,    Silas.      Spencer.    1830;    Littleton,    1832—34;    West 

Royalston    and    Warwick,     1838—46;     West    Royalston, 

1847—56. 
Kent,    Charles    Henry.      Gay    Head,    1877—81,    1888—89; 

Sandisfield,   1890;    Gay  Head,  1892—93. 
Kent,  J.  H.     Egremont,   1860—64;    Holyoke,  First,  1864 — 65. 
Kenyon,  Frederick  Thompkins.     Huntington,  1901 — 
Kerr,  Archibald.     Middleboro,  Third,   1897 — 99. 
Kerr.   David.     Quincy,    Calvary.    1898— 1900. 
Keyes,     Calvin.       Conway,     1824—26,     1832—35;      Westfield 

Farms   (extinct),  1841. 
Keyes,  Charles  B.    North  Adams,  1829 — 36. 
Keyser,  Charles.     Wakefield,  1875 — 76. 
Keyser,    Frederick    Henry.     Fayville    (acting),    1899 — 1901 ; 

North  Oxford,  1901 — 02. 
Kimball,  C.  FL     Holyoke.  Second,  1886—88. 
Kimball,  Charles  O.     Methuen,  1824 — 34. 
Kimball,  Daniel  Webster.     Manchester,   1897 — 98. 
Kimball,  Isaac.     Middleboro,   Third,   1821 — 23. 


178  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Kimball,  Oliver  Dennett.  Leominster,  1876 — 83 ;  West 
Newton,    First,    1883—88. 

Kimball,  O.  Wilson.  Oak  Blufifs  (now  Cottage  City), 
1884—88. 

Kimball,  Willard.     Abington   (now  Whitman),  1824 — 25. 

King,  Alonzo.     Northboro,   1832 — 35. 

King,  George  Mellen  Prentiss.  Seekonk  (extinct), 
1861—62;     Natick,    1865—66. 

King,  Henry  Melville.     Boston,  Dudley  Street,  1863 — 81. 

King,  Lyman  Winslow.     West  Roxbury,  1895 — 97. 

King,  Walter  A.     Boston,  Elm  Hill,  1896. 

Kingsbury,  A.     Pittsfield,  1843 — 46. 

Ktngsley,  Amos.     Becket,     1809 — 13. 

Kingsley,  Samuel  S.  Plainfield  (extinct),  1845 — 46;  War- 
wick, 1847 — 48. 

Kingsley,  Silas.     Chester   (now  Huntington),  1812 — 47. 

Kinne,  Manuel.     Three  Rivers,  1862. 

Kinney,  George  W.     Holden,  1869 — 70;    Petersham,  1896 — 97. 

Kinney,  Luman.     Dighton,  1861 — 63  ;    Raynham,  1863 — 64. 

Kirk,  John  A.  Boston,  Twelfth,  1893;  Boston,  Ebenezer, 
1894 — 96. 

KiRKHAM,  Orville  Clark.    Cheshire,  1865 — 66. 

Klein,  Friedrich  Wilhelm.     Wenham,   1892 — 95 ;    Andover, 

1895—99. 
Kling,    William    H.      West    Amesbnry     (now    Merrimac), 

1868—70;    North  Attleboro,  1876—81. 
Knight,  Benjamin.     Beverly,  Second,  1834 — 39;    Gloucester, 

Sandy  Bay  (now  Rockport),  1839 — 40;  Billerica,  1843 — 45; 

North    Reading,    1846;     Tyngsboro    (extinct),    1847 — 48; 

Billerica,   1858 — 59;    Lynn,  Third    (extinct),   1868. 
Knowles,  James  D.    Boston,  Second  (now  Warren  Avenue), 

1825—32. 
Knowles,  Samuel.    North  Attleboro,  1892 — 96;   North  Biller- 
ica, 1896^99 ;   Whitman.  1899 — 1901 ;   Adams,  1901 — 
Knox,   George.     Lawrence,   First,    1863 — 65. 

Lamb,  Amherst.  Charlemont  and  Buckland,  1837 — 42; 
Charlemont,  1843 — 45;  Heath  (extinct),  1858 — 60;  Cole- 
rain,    Second,    i860 — 61. 

Lamb,  A.  T.     Sandisfield,  1894. 

Lamb,  J.  C.     Brewster,  1884—88. 

Lamb,  Frank  M.     Salem,  Calvary,  1898 — 

Lamb,  R.  G.     Sutton,  Second,  1852. 

Lamson,  Darius  Francis.  Littleton.  1858 — 61 ;  Ashland, 
1861 — 65;  Northboro,  186=; — TZ'^  Worcester,  Dewey  Street, 
1873—81;    Marblehead,  1883;    Manchester,  1884—96. 

Lamson,  William.  Gloucester,  First,  1838 — 48;  Brookline, 
1859—75. 

Lane,  A.  W.    Hinsdale  (acting),  1896. 


PASTOHS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 79 

Lane,  Benjamin  I.  Cambridge,  Old,  1847 — 48;  Nevvburyport, 
1851—53;    Randolph,  1868. 

Lane,  Benjamin  Humphrey.  North  Uxbridge,  1877 — 82; 
Worcester,  Dewey  Street,  1882 — 84;  Holden,  1892 — 94; 
Rockland,  1902 — 

Lane,  Henry  Fayette.  Dorchester,  Second  (now  Stoughton 
Street),  1857 — 60;  Lawrence,  First,  i860— -63;  Kingston, 
1881—83;    Worcester,  Pleasant  Street,  1883—88. 

Lasher,  George  William.  Haverhill,  Portland  Street, 
1864—68. 

Latham,  Sumner.  Dighton,  1864;  Fayville,  1870 — 71; 
Bernardston,  1889 — QO. 

Lathrop,  James  Walcott.  Dorchester,  Second  (now  Stough- 
ton Street),  1850 — 56;  Medfield,  1856—63;  Rowley, 
1863 — 67;  Beverly  Farms,  1867 — 70;  North  Oxford, 
1870 — 72)',    Raynham,  1873 — 75. 

Lawrence,  A.  A.  Charlemont,  1887;  North  Leverett  and 
North  Sunderland,  1901 — 

Lawrence,  Antone  O.  New  Bedford,  Elim  (Swede), 
1900 — 1902. 

Lawrence,  Benjamin  Franklin.  Groton,  1874 — 80;  Shutes- 
bury,    1897 — 98;     Mendon    (acting),    1900 — 01. 

Lawrence,  J.  Reynard.  Egremont,  1896 — 97 ;  Lanesboro, 
1898— 

La wton,  George  B.  Quincy  Point  (extinct),  1879 — 84;  Biller- 
ica,  First,  1884 — 87;  Brockton,  Warren  Avenue,  1887 — 93; 
West  Bridgewater,  1893 — 94. 

Lazell,  J.  E.     Harvard,  1832. 

Leach,  Albert.  Carver,  1902 — 

Leach,  Sanford.  Three  Rivers,  1846 — 48;  Templeton  (now 
Baldwinsville),  1848 — 51. 

Leach,  William.  Wendell,  1846 — 50;  South  Hanson, 
1852 — 54;  East  Stoughton  (now  Avon),  1857 — 59;  Tis- 
bury,  1859 — 61;  South  Yarmouth,  1861 — ^4;  Carver, 
1864 — 69;    Harvard   (Still  River),  1869 — 70. 

Learned,  J.  H.  Sterling,  1855 — 56;  Harvard  (Still  River), 
1858—60.  1868;  Bolton,  1860—62;  Westminster,  1862—64; 
Sterling,  1866—68;    Long  Plain,  1871. 

LeCompte,  Edwin  Augustus.  Boston,  Fourth  Street  (ex- 
tinct),   1862—68;    Lowell,    Worthen    Street,    1874—79. 

Lee,  James  H.  New  Bedford,  Salem  Street  (extinct), 
1872—84. 

Leeson,    George   Edwin.      Framingham,    First,    1877 — 81. 

LeFavor,  Amos.  Spencer,  1822 — 24;  Scituate,  1825 — 26;  Han- 
over, 1826 — 28. 

Leighton,  Samuel  Stillman.  Newton,  Second,  1846 — 47; 
Orleans    (extinct),  1856 — 59. 

Leland,  Ira.  Long  Plain,  1838,  1846 — 47;  Barnstable, 
1841 — 43;    Lexington,    1847 — 56. 


l80  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Leland,  John.  Cheshire,  Third,  — 1802 — 08;  Cheshire,  Sec- 
ond, 1826 — 34,  1837 — 40;    Long  Plain,  1845. 

Lent,  Frederic.     Salem,  Calvary,   1896 — 98. 

Lentell,  Jesse  Valentine.  Spencer,  1855 — 57;  Sandisfield, 
1859—63;  Conway,  1863 — 66;  Shutesbury,  1866—67; 
Deerfield  (extinct),  1867—68;    Stamford,  Vt.,  1870 — 72. 

Leonard,  George.     Salem,  Central.  1826 — 29. 

Leonard,  Lewis.    Plymouth,  1809 — 10. 

Leonard,  Loomis  George.     Webster,  1836 — ^43. 

Leonard,  O.  L.     Rockport,  1869 — 7^,  1876. 

Leonard,  Zenas  L.     Sturbridge,  1824 — 30. 

Lester,  Lewis.  West  Springfield,  First  (now  Agawam), 
1842 — 46. 

Leverett,  Ebenezer.    West  Cambridge  (now  Arlington),  1828. 

Leverett,  William.  Boston,  Dudley  Street,  1825 — 39;  Cam- 
bridge,  Second,   1841 — 49;    Grafton,  Second,   1850 — 54. 

Levy,  Maurice  Ambrose.  Hingham,  1898— 1901 ;  Medford, 
First,   1901 — 

Lewis,  Abner.     West  Harwich,  1802 — 09. 

Lewis,  Charles  Casson.     North  Tisbury,  1845. 

Lewis,  Evan.     South  Boston,  Fourth  Street,   1869 — 71. 

Lewis,  George  L.  West  Tisbury,  1871 ;  Vineyard  Haven, 
1876—78;    Canton,  1884—85. 

Lewis,  J.   Nelson.     Maiden,  First,   1887 — 90. 

Lewis,   Welcome.     Mansfield,    1852 — 55,   1862 — y^. 

Lewy,   S.    p.     Long   Plain,    1872. 

Libbey,  William.     Ashfield,    1885 — 91. 

Light,  Frederick  Augustus.  Braintree,  1881 — 82;  Boston, 
First  German,  1882 — 83. 

Lincoln,  Bradford  Heman.     South  Framingham,  1854 — 56. 

Lincoln,  Heman.     Jamaica  Plain,   1853^-59. 

Lincoln,  Warren.     Chicopee,   Central,  1853 — 56. 

Lindberg,  Alfred  E.     Boston,  First  Swede,  1899 — 

LiNDH,  Eric  Isadore.  West  Acton,  1893 — 95;  Holliston, 
1896—98. 

Linsley,  Vivian  H.    Tyringham  (acting),  1901 — 02. 

LiNTELL,  R.     South  Yarmouth,   1848. 

Lisle,  William  McIntire.  West  Newton,  1870 — 74;  West 
Somerville,    1877 — 82. 

Litchfield,  Daniel  Clapp.     Andover,   1864 — 68. 

Litchfield,  George  A.    Winchendon,  1862—65. 

LiTORiN,  Herman.     Gardner,  Swede,  1901 — 

Littlefield,  James  H.     North  Abin.eton,  1895. 

Livingston,  Benjamin  T.     Osterville,   1898—99. 

Locke,  Arthur.     Vineyard  Haven,  1890. 

Locke,  J.  E.     Vineyard  Haven.  1892. 

Lockrow,  David  Mount.  Pondville  (acting),  1894;  Rowley, 
1895—98;     Melrose   Highlands,    1898— 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  l8l 

LocKROW,    F.    A.      Winthrop,    1872 — 74;     Fall    River,    Third, 

1874—75. 
LocKwooD,  Frederick  W.     Pittsfield,  First,  1902 — 
Lombard,  George  Edward.     ]\Iillbury,  1898 — 1901. 
Long,  David.     Shelburne,  First  (extinct),  1824 — 28;   Deerfield 

(extinct)  and  Shelburne,  First,   1830. 
Long,  Joseph  AL     Dorchester,  First,  1901 — 
LooMis,  William  I.     Adams,  1844 — 46;    Braintree,  1875 — 76. 
LoRiMER,  A.     Seekonk    (extinct),   1853. 
Lorimer,  Albert  William.     Arlington  Heights,  1900 — 1902. 
LoRiMER,    George    C.      Boston,    Shawmut    Avenue    (extinct), 

1870 — JT,;    Boston,  Tremont  Temple,  1873 — 79,  1891 — 1901. 
LoRiNG,  G.  N.     Plymouth,  1838. 

LoRiNG,  Horatio  N.    Aledfield,  1836 — 2>7'y    Plymouth,  1839 — 40. 
LoTHROP,  Davis.     Chatham,   1830;    West   Harwich,   1832 — 33; 

Chatham,   1834 — 2>7 ',    Orleans    (extinct),    1838 — 44;    West 

Harwich,  1846—47;    Orleans,  1851 — 54;    South  Yarmouth, 

1857-58. 
Love,  Horace  T.     North  Adams,  1846 — 51 ;    South  Abington 

(now  Whitman),  1853 — 55. 
Love,  John,  Jr.     Chelsea,   First,   1875 — 83;    Boston,   Warren 

Avenue    (acting),    1898 — 99. 
LovELL,  Andrew  Sprague.     East  Longmeadow,   1857 — 60. 
Lovell,  Lorenzo   O.     Fitchburg,   First,    1836;     Sutton,   First, 

1852 — 56;    Rochdale    (Greenville),    1856 — 58. 
LovELL,  Nehemiah  Gorham.     Princeton   (extinct),  1834 — 36; 

Amherst,   1836 — 40;    Bellingham,  1840 — 47;    North  Attle- 

boro,  1847 — 51. 
LovELL,    Shubael.      Rowley,    1802 — 07;     Taunton,    1816 — 20; 

Middleboro,  First,  1826;    Cambridge,  First,  1834. 
Lowe,  John  E.    Randolph,  1839 — 40. 
Lundgren,   Carl.     Gardner,    Swede,    1896. 
LuNT,  T.  H.     Littleton,   1845. 
Lyford,     Edward     T.       Rowley,      1868 — 70;       Georgetown, 

1874—78;     Billerica,    First,    1879—83. 
Lyle,  George.     Williamstown,  1845 — 50;    Rockport,  1850 — 52. 
Lyman,  Dan  W.     Athol,  1900 — 

Lyon,  Albert  Jonathan.    Greenfield,  First,  1873 — 75 ;    Rock- 
port,  1875—76. 
Lyon.     A.     Smith.       North     Oxford,     1838 — ^46;      Chatham, 

1849 — 52;    Natick,   1854 — 56. 
Lyon,  Elwood  P.     Egremont,  1898 — 1901. 
Lyon,  John  S.     Holyoke,  Second,  1901 — 
Lyons,  Thomas  G.     Chelmsford,  First,  1895 — 97. 

Mabie,    Harry    S.      New    ^Marlboro,    1899,    with    Sandisfield, 

1900 — 01 ;    Fitchburg,  Beth-Eden,   1901 — 
Mabie,  Henry  Clay.    Brookline,  1875 — 79. 
Macdonald,  E.  H.     New  Bedford,  Union,  1896 — 1900. 


1 82  PAS  Tons   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Macdonald,  Forrester  Alexander.  East  Boston,  Central 
Square  (assistant  pastor),  1893 — 94;  Fitchburg,  Beth- 
Eden,   1894 — 1901 ;    Lexington,   1902 — 

MacDonald,  Robert.  Georgetown,  1885 — 87;  Methuen, 
1887 — 91 ;     Boston,   Warren   Avenue,    1891 — 97. 

Macdougall,  Arthur  R.  Chelmsford,  First,  1900 — 01 ;  South- 
wick,  1902 — 

Mace,  Jeremiah  Moulton.  Carver,  1852 — 55 ;  Pocasset, 
1855—56;  Hanover,  1856—57;  Florida,  1861 ;  Rehoboth, 
1870 — yz. 

MacKinnon,  William  Dennis.    Sutton,  First,  1892—97. 

Macomber,  Francis  Greene.    Beverly,  First,  1825 — 27. 

Macomber,  Sylvanus  Boardman.     Sterling,  1872 — y2>- 

Magill,  David  Tristam.  Milford,  1897 — 1901 ;  Milford  and 
Mendon,  1902 — 

Maine,  R.  H.  Sandisfield,  1863 — 71;  Savoy,  1871 — 72;  Stam- 
ford, Vt.,  1872—75. 

Malcolm,  Howard.  Boston,  Federal  Street  (now  Clarendon 
Street),    1827 — 35. 

Mallory,  Norman  Clark.  Lowell,  First,  1870 — j^;  Lynn, 
First,  1878—80;    Boston,  Fifth  Street,  1881—85. 

Mallory,  O.  E.  Lowell,  First,  1875 — 78;  Lowell,  Branch 
Street,  1878 — 98;    Worcester,  Dewey  Street,  1898 — 

Mallory,  Samuel  S.     Woburn,  1826 — 28. 

Manee,  a.  H.    Egremont,  1894 — 95  ;    Belchertown,  1895 — 1900. 

Manley,  Herbert  Sweetser.     North  Leverett,   1899 — 1901. 

Manning,  Berwick.     Brookfield,  1834. 

Manser,  Henry  Harrison.  Barre,  1884—88;   Wales,  1888 — 89. 

Manton,  Joseph  R.     Gloucester,   First,   1849. 

Marable,  J.  L.     Haverhill,  Calvary,  1901 — 

Marble,  Fred  E.     Cambridge,  North  Avenue,  1902 — 

Marchant,  Henry.  Brewster,  1832 — 33;   Edgartown,  1833 — 34. 

Mariott,  N.  a.    Haverhill,  Calvary,  1892. 

Marsh,  W.  H.  H.     Salem,  Central,  1873—80. 

Marshall,  Benjamin  De  Forest.  Worcester,  First,  1873 — 87; 
Westboro,   1887;    Leominster,    1888 — 97. 

Marshall,  Enos,  Jr.     Egremont,   1824 — 35. 

Marshall,  Horace  Barrows.  Vineyard  Haven,  1868 — 71 ; 
West  Tisbury  (acting),  1871 — 7^;  Chelmsford,  Central, 
1873—75;    Kingston,    1875—80. 

Marshall,  Thomas.  Holden,  1814 — 16;  West  Royalston  and 
Warwick,   1832 — 34;    Colerain,  Second,   1837 — 38. 

Marshall,  W.  H.     East  Boston,  Trinity,  1892 — 99. 

Marston,  S.  W.     East  Brookfield,   1852 — 54. 

Martell,  George  Arthur.  Brewster,  1896;  Turner's  Falls, 
1898^1901  ;    Willimansett,  1901 — 

Martin,  J.  Sella.  Boston,  Independent  (now  St.  Paul's), 
i860 — 62. 


PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  I  83 

Martin,  Orra.  Goshen  (extinct),  1824 — 28;  Ashfield,  Sec- 
ond, 1830;    Deerfield   (extinct),  1840. 

Martin,  Robert   M.     Salem,    Central,    1896 — 98. 

Maryott,    Charles   A.     Baldwinville    (acting),    1870. 

Mason,  A.  Francke.  Barnstable,  Third,  1861 ;  Leominster, 
1874—76. 

Mason,  Alanson  Porter.  Fall  River,  First,  1850 — 53;  Chel- 
sea, 1853 — 66. 

Mason,  Archibald.     Medway,   1847 — 48;    Pocasset,   1853. 

Mason,  Archibald  E.     South  Yarmouth,  1899 — 1901. 

Mason,  Edward  Doran.  Somerville,  Winter  Hill,  1888 — 91 ; 
Cottage  City,   1892 — 95  ;    Georgetown,  1895 — 98. 

Mason,  George  Lamartine.     Fall  River,  Third,   1876 — 80. 

Mason,  Sumner  R.    Cambridge,  First,  1855 — 70. 

Massey,  Joseph  Tinsley.     Bellingham,  1834 — 40,  1847 — 80. 

IMatthews,  Frank  B.    Newton,  Immanuel,  1899 — 

Matthews,  George.  North  Reading,  1830 — 34;  West  Har- 
wich, 1847 — 48;  Littleton,  1848—50;  Athol,  185 1 ;  See- 
konk  (extinct),  1855 — 56;  Chatham,  1862 — 63;  New 
Marlboro,  1867;  South  Dartmouth  (extinct),  1869—70; 
New  Bedford,  Second,  1871 — 72. 

Matthews,  J.  W.  Boston,  Independent  (now  St.  Paul's), 
1876—78;    Springfield,  Pilgrim  (now  Third),  i88ch-8i. 

Maul,  Webster  R.     Ashland,  1871 — 72,. 

McAllester,  William  Charles.     Randolph,  1899— 

McCoMBE,  George  William.  Boston,  Berean  (acting),  1901 ; 
Arlington  Heights,   1902 — 

McCuLLOUCH,  Nathaniel.  Florida,  1830;  Savoy,  First, 
1832 — 7,6;  Chesterfield,  1836 — 2i7  \  Plainfield  (extinct), 
1837 — 40;    Savoy,  Second,  1840 — 46. 

McCuLLOUGH,  George  Washington.  Danvers,  First,  1873 — y6 ; 
Edgartown,  1876 — 77;  East  Gloucester  (now  Chapel 
Street).   1877—80. 

McCurdy,    Selden   Rufus.     Hudson    (acting),    1899 — 1900. 

McDonald,   Donald   Gordon.     Ashland,    1886—87. 

McDonald,  J.  W.  West  Springfield,  First  (now  Agawam), 
1832—35- 

McElwain,  John  A.  Boston,  Clarendon  Street  (assistant 
pastor),    1878 — 1900. 

McGear,  D.  L.    Grafton,  First,  1850 — 51. 

McGregor,  James  Wells.  Stoneham,  1888 — 91 ;  Hyannis, 
1891 — 95,  with  Barnstable,  Third,    1896—98. 

McJanet,  Robert.     Sterling,  1893. 

McKean,  Joseph.  Winchendon,  1891 — 96;  Fall  River,  Third, 
1902 — 

McKenna,  E.  J.     Somerville,  Union  Square,  1893 — 94. 

McKenzie,  William  Scott.  East  Abington  (Rockland), 
1857—58;    Andover,   1858—60. 

McKillop,  William  Anderson.  Roslindale  (acting),  1882 — 83. 


1 84  FAS  TORS  OF  BAFTIST  CHURCHES 

McLean,  A.  S.     Hingham,  1877. 

McLearn,  Alexander.     Halifax  (extinct),  i860 — 61;    ]\Iiddle- 

boro,  First,  1863 — 65;    Granville,  1865 — 69. 
McLellan,     Bryant.       Osterville,     1889 — 91 ;     West     Acton, 

1891 — 92;    Milford,   1894 — 96. 
McLeod,  Alexander.     Waverly   (acting),   1902 — 
McMillan,  Henry  J.     Savoy,  1895 — 97!    Mashpee,  1897 — 
McNally,    Charles   Remington.      Lowell,    Worthen    Street, 

1900 — 
McPhail,  Duncan  Martin  Luther.     Long  Plain   (acting), 

1899;    Groton,  1902 — 
McWhinnie,  James.    Cambridge,  First,  1884 — 92- 
Meacham,  Cola  De  Rienzi.    Barre.  1870 — 74;   North  Scituate, 

1874—79;  Chatham  (acting),  1880—81;  Ashland,  1883—85; 

Canton,  1886—88. 
Meader,  Wilfred  J.     Cliftondale,  1901 — 02 ;    Ayer,  1902 — 
Medbery,  Nicholas.     Middleboro,  Central,  1828 — 30;    Water- 
town,   1832 — 44;    Newburyport,   1845 — 51;    Ashland,   1853. 
Meech,  William  W.     Long  Plain,  1858 — 60. 
Meeser,  Spencer  Byron.    Worcester,  First,  1896 — 1901. 
Meeson,  J.   D.     Winchester.   1861 — 62;    Ashland,   1873 — 75- 
Megregory,    Elias.       Shrewsbury     (extinct)     and     Boylston, 

1819 — 22;    Ward  (extinct),  1822 — 26;    Leverett  and  Mon- 
tague, 1828. 
Melleny,  C.  p.    Haverhill,  Second,  1871 — ^2. 
Merriam,  Asaph.    Royalston  and  Warwick,  1825 — 30;  Canton, 

1837—40;    Athol,    1840 — 46;    Bolton,   1848—55. 
Merriam,  Edmund  Franklin.     Winthrop   (acting),  1880 — 81. 
Merriam,  Mylon.   Sharon,  1853 — 58;  Colerain,  First,  1881 — 86; 

Hampden,  1886—88. 
Merrifield,   Elliot  Plympton.     Cummington,   1894 — 1900. 
Merrill,    George    Edmands.       Springfield,     First,     1872 — 'JT, 

Salem,  First,   1877 — 85;    Newton,  Immanuel,   1890 — 99. 
Merrill,    Joseph     Wiggin.      Barre,     1875 — 76;      Middleboro, 

Third,   1884—85;    Stamford.  Vt.,   1887—88. 
Merriman,    T.    M.      Beverly,    Second.    1865 — 66;     Kingston, 

1867 — 70;    Petersham,  1872 — "JZ',    Fiskdale,  1873 — 75;    East 

Stoughton,     1875;      West     Dedham     (now     Westwood), 

1879—82. 
Merry,    William    B.    C.      Fitchburg,    Highland,     1891 — 96; 

Somerville,  Union  Square,  1896 — 
Messenger,   E.   C.     Middleboro,   Third,    1834 — 37;    Abington, 

1837 — 45;     East    Brookfield,    1846 — 47;     West    Medway, 

1849—65. 
Metcalf,  J.   K.     Osterville,   1868—71 ;    Lanesboro,    1871—78. 
Mick,  William  Marcellus.     Waltham,  First,  1888 — 91. 
Millard,  William  A.  A.     Norton,  1869;    Rowe,  1870. 
Miller,  D.    Henry.     Lowell,   Worthen   Street,   1872 — "jt,. 


PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 85 

Miller,  Charles.     Wenham,  1832—35;    Boston,  North  Bap- 
tist, 1836—37;    South  Reading   (now  Wakefield),  1838. 
Miller,   Henry    F.    H.     Norton,    1859—61;     South    Hanson, 
1868—70;    Manchester,  1870;    North  Belhngham,  1874—76. 
Miller,  Joel  D.    West  Royalston,  1866—67. 
Miller,    J.    Judson.      Somerville,    Perkins    Street,    1861— 81 ; 
Worcester,    Lincoln    Square,    1881—92;     Waltham,    Beth- 
Eden,  1893—98.  . 
MiLLiNGTON,  Henry  William  Oldknow.     Pocasset  (acting), 

1890 — 92;    Lowell,  Fifth  Street,  1892— 1902. 
Mills,  Albert  R.    Turner's  Falls,  1902— 
Mills,    Edward.      Westminster,    1865—66;     Woburn,    First, 

1875—80;    Franklin,  1890—94. 
Mills,  Robert  Curtis.     Springfield,  Second  (Chicopee  Falls), 

1845—48;    Salem,  First,  1848—76. 
Milne,  Alexander.     Pocasset,  1839—40;    Middleboro,  Third, 
1842—44;     Halifax     (branch    of    Central,    Middleboro), 
1844 — 45. 
Milton,  C.     West  Cambridge   (now  Arlington),   1837. 
Minard,  Clarence  Reginald.     Palmer,  1895—98;    Springfield, 
Carew   Street,   1898— 1900.  ^-      r  ,, 

Miner,    Bradley.      Dorchester,  ^  First,    1838—46 ;     Pittsfield, 

First,  1846 — 50. 
Miner,  Cyrus.    North  Tisbury,  1843—47. 
Miner,  George  H.     Cambridge,  Second,  1869—72;    Newbury- 

port,  1872—75,  1901— 
Miner,  J.  B.     Monroe,  1885—91 ;    Brewster,  1891. 
Miner,  Johnson  Levi.     Plymouth,  1898— 1901. 
Miner,  Noyes  William.    East  Longmeadow,  1848 — 51. 
Mitchell,   Edwin   Foster.     Bellingham  and   North   Belhng- 
ham,  1890—92;    Pocasset,   1892—94. 
Mitchell,  E.  S.     Middleboro,  Third   (acting),  1896. 
Mitchell.  H.  H.     New  Bedford,  Second   (extinct),  1879—82. 
Mitchell,  Howard  Rogers.     Conway,  1880—85;    Huntington, 

1885—88;    North  Uxbridge,  1888—91. 
Mitchell,  Joseph   B.     Halifax    (extinct),   1864. 
Mitchell,  Richard  Samuel.     East  Longmeadow,   1891—95; 

Fiskdale,    1897—98;    Barre,   1901— 
Mitchell,  Seth  K.    Cambridge,  Second,  1894—96. 
MixTER,  George.    Wales,  1837—42-  „  .     ^, 

Montague,  Elijah.    Leverett  and  :Montague,  1824—26;    Mon- 
tague,   1826—28;     Sunderland   and    ]Montague,    1830. 
Montague,  Leroy  Johnson.     Boston,  Ebenezer,   1897— 
Montague,    Richard.      Lawrence,    First,    1879—81;     Newton 

Centre,   1893—95.  ^     .  o^      ^^        a  ui     ^ 

Moody     Reuel    B.       South  Braintree,     1863—66;     Ashland, 

1866—68;       Plymouth,  1868—71;       Lawrence,      Second, 

1880—83;     Charlestown,  Bunker    Hill,    1884—92;     South- 


1 86     PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

bridge,  Central,  1892 — 93;  Peabody,  1898 — 1902;  Frank- 
lin, 1902 — 

Moore,  A.  R.     Somerville,  Perkins  Street,  1890 — 93. 

Moore,  Ferris.     Canton,  1824;    Lee   (supply),  1846^57. 

Moore,  John   Ward.     Charlestown,   Bunker  Hill,    1902 — 

Moore,  William.    Baldwinsville,  1890 — 92. 

MoREY,  Reuben.     Attleboro,  1841 — 46. 

Morgan,  Charles  T.     Haverhill,  First,  1896 — 

Morgan,  Dura  Pratt.  Jamaica  Plain,  1872 — 75;  Beverly, 
First,  1875—88. 

Morgan,  Hiram  Almeron.  Russell,  1854 — 56;  Becket, 
1856 — 62;    Lee,   1863 — 69;    Cheshire,   1870 — 76. 

Morrill,  Jonathan  C.     Somerset,  1852 — 54. 

Morris,  Charles  David.     Gloucester,  First,  1882 — 87. 

Morris,  Charles  Satchell.    West  Newton,  Myrtle,  1896 — 98. 

Morse,  Appleton.  Princeton  (extinct),  1830 — 34;  Fitchburg, 
First,  1834 — 35.  i837 — 38;  West  Cambridge  (now  Arling- 
ton), 1835—37. 

Morse,  B.  S.  South  Wilbraham  (extinct),  1862 — 64;  Grafton, 
First,  1890 — 96. 

Morse,  Frank  Rogers.  South  Grafton,  1862;  Cambridge, 
Second,  1865 — 67;  Lowell,  Worthen  Street,  1867 — 71;  Fall 
River,   Second,    1871 — 72. 

Morse,  J.   B.     Charlestown,  Bunker  Hill,   1863—66. 

Morse,  Silas  Livingstone.  Bethel  (assistant  pastor),  1892; 
Plymouth,  1892 — 97;  Medfield,  1899 — 1901 ;  Merrimac, 
1901 — 

Morse,  Winthrop.  Orleans  (extinct),  1830;  Templeton 
(now  Baldwinville),  1832 — 34;  East  Brookfield,  1837 — 39; 
Chelmsford,  First,  1846 — 47;    North  Marshfield,  1847. 

Morten,  Nels  N.  Brockton,  Swede,  1895 — 1900;  Worcester, 
Harlem  Street,  Swede,  1900 — 

Morton,  James  Ferdinand.  Littleton,  1869 — 72;  Dorchester, 
First,  1873 — 76. 

Moss,  Lemuel.    Worcester,  First,  i860 — 64. 

Mower,  Irving  Bemis.     Sharon,  1883 — 86. 

Mowrey,  T.  B.  North  and  West  Tisbury,  1893 — 94;  Mash- 
pee,   1894 — 96;    Monroe,   1897 — 98. 

MoxoM,  Philip  S.     Boston,  First,  1885 — 93. 

MuLLiNS,  Edgar  Young.     Newton  Centre,  1896 — 98. 

Munger,  Dexter.     Monson  (extinct),  1840 — 45. 

Munger,    Washington.      Holland    (extinct),    1832 — 38. 

MuNRO,  James.     Charlemcnt,   1872 — y^)- 

Munroe,  Calvin.     Fgremont,  1837 — 38. 

Murch,  Charles  Henry.    Osterville,  1895. 

Murdoch,  John  Nelson.     Boston,  Bowdoin  Square,  1858 — 62. 

Murphy,  Joseph.     New  Bedford,  Second  (extinct),  1891. 

Murray,  A.  H.  Pocasset,  1878—82,  1885;  Pondville,  1883— 
86;    Long  Plain,  1886—89. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  18/ 

Myers,  Charles  Frederic.    North  Reading,  1872 — 74;    Sutton, 

First,  1874—75. 
Myhrman,  D.   W.     Cambridge,   Swede,   1897. 

Narber,  Franklin  P.  Cambridge,  Second,  1898 — 1900;  East 
Brookfield,  1902 — 

Naylor,  John  George.    Lowell,  Third  (extinct),  1841 — ^45. 

Nead,  George  Walter.     Norwood,  1892 — 

Neale,  Rollin  Heber.  Boston,  South,  1832 — 34;  Boston, 
First,  1837—79. 

Neill,  R.  ]\I.     Billerica,  First,  — 

Nelson,  Ebenezer.    Woburn,  1803 — 11. 

Nelson,  Ebenezer,  Jr.  Lynn,  1824 — 25 ;  West  Cambridge 
(now  Arlington),  1828 — 2>2>'j  Middleboro,  Central,  1837 — 51. 

Nelson,  N.  E.     Brockton,  Swede,  1890 — 95. 

Nelson,  Samuel.    ]\Iiddleboro,  Third,  1802 — 21. 

Nelson,  Stephen  S.  Bellingham,  1814;  Attleboro,  First, 
1815 — 21;  Plymouth,  1821 — 23;  Belchertown,  1825 — 26; 
Athol,  1832 — 33;    Amherst,  1833 — 34. 

Nelson,  William   Francis.     Greenfield,   1852 — 56. 

Newhall,   Charles.     Sutton,   First,   1880 — 84. 

Newhall,  George  Frederick.    Stamford,  Vt.,  1900 — 

Newton,  Baxter.  North  Leverett  and  Montague,  1845 — 54, 
1873;  North  Leverett,  1874 — 85;  North  Sunderland, 
1887—89. 

Newton,  Calvin.  Bellingham,  1828 — 31 ;  Grafton,  First, 
1841—44. 

NiBUKER,  F.  H.     Lawrence,  First,  1882 — 84. 

Nichols,  Charles  Nelson.  North  Tisbury,  1884 — 86;  Chat- 
ham, 1886—87. 

Nichols,  G.  E.  West  Medway,  1889 — 90;  Willimansett  (act- 
ing), 1892—93. 

Nichols,  John.     Egremont,  1808 — 11. 

Nichols,   John.      Great    Barrington    (extinct),    1808 — 11. 

Nicholson,  C.  F.  Conway,  1861 — 62;  Millbury,  1862 — 63; 
Norton,  1880;  New  Bedford,  North,  1882—83;  Charles- 
town,  Bunker  Hill,  1883—84. 

Nightengale,  Charles  Spurgeon.     Danvers,  1898 — 

Niles,  Asa.  Greenwich,  1806 ;  New  Salem,  1824 — 25 ;  Scit- 
uate,  1828;  Middleboro,  First,  1832,  1838;  Marshfield, 
First,  1832 — 33;    Taunton,  1833 — 34. 

NoBBS,  James.    Russell.  1893 — 94;    Marshfield,  First,  1899 — 

NoBBS,  Samuel  Bastin.  Groton,  1889 — 91 ;  Salem,  Central, 
1891 — 94;  Gloucester,  Chapel  Street,  1894 — 1900;  Salem, 
Central,   1900 — • 

NoBBS,  William  Horatio.  West  Townsend,  1895 — 98;  Rayn- 
ham,  1898 — 

NoRCROss,  James  Edward.  Marblehead,  1897 — 1900;  Ames- 
bury,  1900 — 


1 88  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

NoRDELL,  Philip  A.     Lee,  1874 — "jt,    Weymouth,  1877 — 82. 

NoRRis,  William.     Ashfield,  1843 — 46. 

NoRTHRUP,  G.  R.     North  Tisbury,  1855 — 56. 

Norton,  N.  J.    Adams,  1853 — 55. 

NoTT,   Handel   G.     Boston,   Federal   Street    (now   Clarendon 

Street),  1839 — 40. 
NoTT,    Richard    Means.      Wakefield,    1872 — ^y,     Brookville, 

1877—80. 
No  YES,  William  Emery.     North  Reading,  1893 — 94. 

Olmstead,  Jephtha  Montrose.     West  Townsend,   1893 — 95; 

Avon,  1895 — 99. 
Olm stead,  John  Wesley.     Chelsea,  First,  1842 — 46. 
Orcutt,  Josiah.     New  Salem  (extinct),  1802. 
Ordway,  Otis  Osgood.     Haverhill,  Second,  1887 — 94;    Middle- 

boro,  First,  1895 — 97. 
Ormsby,  John.     West  Cambridge  (now  Arlington),  1824 — 26. 
OsBORN,  Abraham  Coles.     North  Adams,  1877 — 84. 
OsBORN,  CoRRA.    East  Dedham,  1864 — 66. 
Osterhout,  John  Van  Buren.     Webster,  1869 — T^- 
OsTROM,  Peter.    Worcester,  First  Swede,  1883—87. 
Otis,  Nathaniel.    West  Stockbridge  (extinct),  1816. 
Owen,  Alfred.     Lynn,  High  Street,  1858 — 67. 
OwERS,  Edward.     North  Leverett,  1895. 

Packard,   Joshua    Forbes.     Carver,    1884 — 87;     Swampscott, 

1887—89;      East     Dedham,     1889—97;      West     Roxbury, 

1898 — 99. 
Packard,  Willard.     Carver,  1S87 — 90;    North  and  West  Tis- 
bury,   1894 — 98 ;     Manchaug  and    Sutton,    Second,    1898 — 

1902 ;    East  Haverhill,  1902 — 
Packard,  W.  S.    Southwick,  1892 — 94. 
Padelford,  Adoniram  Judson.    Amherst,  1866 — 68;   Haverhill, 

Portland  Street,  1868—76. 
Padelford,  Frank  W.     Haverhill,  Portland  Street,   1897 — 
Page,   Charles   L.     Boston,  Dudley   Street,  assistant  pastor, 

1892 — 
Page,    E.    H.      Charlestown,    Bethesda    (now    Bunker    Hill), 

1853—57;   Feltonville,  1865— 66;   Milford,  1866— 68;   South 

Groton   (extinct),  1868 — 69. 
Paine,  John.    Ward  (extinct),  1828 — z^. 
Palmer,   Albert    DeForrest.      North    Tewksbury,    1869 — y2\ 

Chicopee,   Central,   1872 — 75. 
Palmer,  A.  H.     North  Adams.  1834 — 35. 
Palmer,  Leander  A.    Swampscott,  1892 — 99;   Pittsfield,  Morn- 

ingside,  1900 — 
Papenhausen,  William.    Boston,  First  German,  1884 — 96. 
Park,  Charles  W.    Millbury,  1901 — 


PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 89 

Parke,  F.  S.  Hancock,  1808,  1834;  Cheshire,  Third,  1852 — 54; 
Hinsdale,  1855 — 56. 

Parker,  Addison.  Southbridge,  1828 — 30;  Sturbridge, 
1832 — 34;  Methiien,  1837 — 38,  1866;  Three  Rivers, 
1848 — 52;    Sturbridge,  1852 — 56;    Agawam,  1856 — ()Z- 

Parker,  Addison,  Jr.  Natick,  1866—69;  Charlestown,  Bunker 
Hill,  1869—73. 

Parker,    Charles    A.     Quincy,    Calvary,    1895 — 98. 

Parker,  D.  V.    Wales,  1870 — 71. 

Parker,  Frank.     Marshfield,  First,  1894 — 98. 

Parker,  F.  S.  Hancock,  1833 — 35 ;  Cheshire,  1852 — 55 ;  Hins- 
dale,  1855—57. 

Parker,  Harvey  George.    Cambridge,  North  Avenue,  1895 — 96. 

Parker,  James  W.  Tyngsboro  and  Dunstable  (extinct), 
1833 — 34;  Whately  (extinct),  1846;  Rowe,  1848 — 50; 
Charlemont,   1850. 

Parker,  Joseph  Whiting.  Cambridge,  First,  1836 — 55;  Alls- 
ton,  Brighton  Avenue,  1857 — 59 ;  Boston,  Shawmut  Avenue 
(extinct),  1859 — 64. 

Parker,   S.    S.     Southbridge,   Central,    1855 — 66. 

Parkhurst,  Jabez  W.  Tyngsboro  and  Dunstable  (extinct), 
1837. 

Parkhurst,  John  W.  Chelmsford,  First,  1824 — 38;  Chelms- 
ford and  Tyngsboro,  1838 — 45;  West  Dedham  (now 
Westwood),  1845 — 49;    Chelmsford,  Central,  1849 — 67. 

Parmelee,  James  Harvey.  Charlemont,  1877 — 78;  Bernards- 
ton,    1878—79;     Erving    (extinct),    1883—86. 

Parmly,  Wheelock  H.     Shelburne  Falls,  1848 — 50. 

Parris,  John   B.     Carver,   1844;     Pocasset,    1845. 

Parshley,  John  Howard.  Westboro,  1883 — 84;  Lawrence, 
First,   1897 — 99. 

Parshley,  Wilbur  Brown.     Cambridge,  Second,   1888 — 89. 

Parsons,  James.  Carver,  1821 — 22,\  Colerain,  First,  1824; 
Templeton    (now  Baldwinsville),   1825. 

Parsons,  N.  D.  East  Longmeadow,  1888 — 90;  Hampden, 
1890 — 97;    Ayer,  1899 — 1902. 

Partridge,  Lyman.  Wales.  1866 — 69;  Sharon,  1872 — 82; 
Westminster,  1883 — 92 ;    Westwood,  1892 — 

Pasco,  Cephas.  Needham  and  Dover  (Dover,  extinct), 
1841 — 42;  Rowley,  1842 — 48;  Egremont,  1849 — 59;  West 
Bridgewatcr,    1859 — 71. 

Patch,  George  Whitney.  Wenham,  1841 — 43 ;  Sharon, 
1S43— 48;    Marblehead,    1848—74. 

Paterson,  James.     Jamaica  Plain,   1870 — 71. 

Paterson,  William  C.     East  Dedham,  1850 — 6},. 

Patterson,  James  Robert.     Nantucket,  1889 — 97. 

Patterson,  R.  A.  Chelsea,  Carey  Avenue,  i860 — 61 ;  Plym- 
outh,   1862 — 63;     Newburyport,    1863 — 65. 


IQO  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST   CHURCHES 

Patton,  Alfred  S.  Boston,  Tremont  Street  (extinct), 
1859 — 61 ;   Watertown,  1861 — 64. 

Paul,  Thomas.  Boston,  Independent  (now  St.  Paul's), 
1806 — 29. 

Pauling,  E.  C.     Marblehead,  1900 — 1902. 

Pay,  George  F.     Savoy,  First,  1862 — 63. 

Peabody,  Charles  H.  Sutton,  First,  1837 — 4°;  North  Ran- 
dolph,  1840 — 42. 

Peak,  John.  Barnstable,  1802 — 05,  1819 — 26;  Newbury  and 
Newburyport,  1807 — 11. 

Peakes,  Fred  William.     Ashland,  1899 — 

Pearce,  Philip.     Savoy,  First,  181 1 — 17. 

Pearson,  Laurence.    Woodville,  1855. 

Pease,  Bartj^ett.  Seekonk  (extinct),  1824 — 25;  New- 
bury and  Newburyport,  1830;  Gloucester,  1832;  West 
Bridgewater,  1839 — 42;  Northboro,  1842 — 43;  West  Tis- 
bury,  1861. 

Pease^   Charles   Stanley.     Ashfield   and   Conway,    1896 — 

Pease,  David.  Conway,  1828 — 30;  Goshen  (extinct).  1830; 
Charlemont,  1832 — 2>y,  Three  Rivers,  1833 — 34;  Williams- 
town,  1834 — 35;  Holmes  Hole  (extinct),  1836-— 37;  North 
Tisbury,  1838;  Conway,  1854 — 57;  Sunderland  and  Mon- 
tague, 1858 — 65;    Savoy,  1868. 

Pease,   Jesse.      North    Tisbury,    1841 — 42;     Gay   Head,    1844. 

Pease,  William  A.  Blandford,  1846;  Plainfield  (extinct), 
1848 — 49;  Cummington,  1849 — 50;  Deerfield  (extinct), 
1850 — 52;  Shutesbury,  1852—55;  Leverett  and  Montague, 
1855—56. 

Pease,  W.  H.     Somerset,  1884—86. 

Peck,  Arthur  Cole.     Shelburne  Falls,  1891 — 95. 

Peck,  J.  J.  South  Amesbury  (Merrimacport,  extinct), 
1865—66;    Melrose,  First,  1869—70. 

Peckens,  John.     Chelmsford,  Second,  1802 — 10. 

Peede,  T.  Richard.  Haverhill,  Second,  1885 — 86;  Beverly 
Farms,  1886—88;  Scituate,  1888—92;  Worcester,  South, 
1893 — 1901 ;    Everett,  First,  1901 — 

Pendleton,   Charles   H.     Worcester,  Main  Street,   1886 — 95. 

Pendleton,  Silas  Porter.     North  Marshfield,  1884 — 85. 

Penney,  Frank  Dee.  North  Adams,  1893—97;  Worcester, 
Lincoln  Square,  1897 — 1902. 

Pentecost,  George  Frederick.  Boston,  Warren  Avenue. 
1872—78. 

Pepper,  Elbridge.  Palmer  (acting),  1863—64;  Groveland 
(extinct),    1871 — 72. 

Perkins,  Aaron.     South  Hanson,   1864 — 65. 

Perkins,  Barnabas.  Marshfield,  First,  1803—06;  Hanover, 
1806. 

Perkins,  N.  M.  Westfield,  Central,  1846—49;  Brooklme, 
1855-58. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  191 

Perry,  E.  G.     IMashpee   (formerly  Marshpee),  1838 — 40. 

Perry,  Gideon  B.     New  Bedford,  First,  1826^28. 

Perry,  Gideon  Howland.     Chatham,  1878—80. 

Perry,  H.  Francis.    Hudson,  1888 — 90;   Hyde  Park,  1890 — 96. 

Perry,  Joseph  E.     Allston,  Brighton  Avenue,  1900 — 

Perry,     Philander.       East     Brookfield,     1867—68;      Barre, 

1882—83;    Middleboro,   Third,   1886—88;    Hinsdale,   1888. 
Person,    Ira.      Plymouth,    1844;     Lowell,    Third    (extinct), 

1845—46. 
Pervear,    Hir.'\m    Kalloch.      Cambridge,    Second,    1857 — 65 ; 

Worcester,   First,    1865 — yz;    Cambridge,   First,   1873 — 79; 

New    Bedford,    First,    1880—86;     Clinton,    1886—91. 
Phelan,  E.  B.    Monroe  (acting),  1900. 
Phillips,    Daniel    William.      Medfield,     1838 — 50;     South 

Reading  (now  Wakefield),  1850—62. 
Phillips,  James  M.    Russell,  1846. 
Philips,    William.      Attleboro,     1828;     Charlestown,    First, 

1836—41. 
Phillips,  William  Albert.     Chatham,  1890. 
Phillips,  William  Solomon.     Chesterfield,  1854 — 56;    Wales, 

1856—59;    East  Longmeadow,  1875 — 76;    Wales,  1878 — 79; 

Chelmsford,  First,   1879 — 80. 
Phippin,  George.     Templeton   (now  Baldwinville),  1821 — 24; 

Spencer,  1824 — 25  ;    Lee  and  Tyringham,  1845 — 50. 
PiDDOCK,  Charles  Albert.     West  Springfield,  1879 — 81. 
PiDGE,  John  Bartholomew  Gough.    Lawrence,  First,  1869 — 79- 
Pierce,  Charles  Clark.     Chelsea,  Gary  Avenue,  1896 — 99. 
Pierce,  Charles  Lincoln.     Kingston,  First,  1895 — 98;    North 

Tewksbury,    1900 — 
Pierce,    Ebenezer    Nelson.      Colerain,    First    and    Second, 

1889 — 90 ;    Avon,  1894 — 95  ;    Gay  Head,  1895 — 96. 
Pierce,  Preserved.     Rehoboth,  1824 — 34. 
Pierce,  Samuel  E.     Gloucester,  First,  1853 — 59. 
Pillsbury,  Stephen,  Jr.     Lee,  187 1 — 74. 
Finkham,  N.  J.    West  Amesbury  (now  Merrimac),  1850 — 51; 

Manchaug,  1866 — 67. 
PiNNEY,  A.     Groton,   1844;    North  Grafton,   1846. 
Piper,  A.  M.     Sunderland  and  ^Montague  (^lontague  extinct), 

1843 — 44;    Northboro,    1844 — 45;    Royalston   Centre    (ex- 
tinct), 1845 — 46. 
Pistor,  Otto  F.     Boston,  First  German,  1897 — 
Pitman,  John.    Rehoboth,  — 1802 — 21. 
Platts,  Harvey  Adams.     Pocasset,  1896 — 98. 
Plumer,  L.  B.     Somerville,  First,  1893. 
Plummer.   Morton  N.     Cambridge,  Broadway,  1900 — 
Poland,  J.  W.     Orleans  (extinct),  1867 — 69. 
Pollard,    Andrew.      Gardner,    1839—41;     Holden,    1841 — 44; 

Barnstable,    First    (now    Hyannis),    1844 — 49;     Taunton, 


192  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

1849 — 71;       South     Boston,     Fourth     Street      (extinct), 

1871—74- 
PoMEROY,  S.    Egremont,  1847 — 48. 

Pond,  Clarence  Strong.     Pocasset  (acting),  1902 — 

Pope,  John   Deming.     Lee  and   Tyringham,  1881 — 86;    Lee, 

1887—99. 
Pope,  Louis  Atherton.     Mansfield,  1877 — 79;    Newburyport, 

1889 — 1900. 
Porter,    Lemuel,    Jr.      Lowell,    Worthen    Street,    1835 — 51; 

Pittsfield,   First,   1851—61. 
Potter,  Albert  Knight.     Springfield,  State  Street,  1864 — 83; 

Boston,  Dudley  Street,  1883—87. 
Potter,   Charles  W.     West  Otis,   i860 — 61 ;    Lee,   1862 — 63 ; 

Fiskdale,  1871 — 72- 
Potter,  George  B.    Ashland,  1868 — 69. 
Potter,   Lester   Lewis.      Everett,    1879 — 80;    West   Newton, 

First,  1880—82;    Springfield,  First,  1882—84. 
Potter,  T.  T.    Grafton,  First,  1881. 

Pottle,  Henry.     ]\Ialden,  First,  1804 — 06;    Ipswich,  1807 — 09. 
Powell,  Absalom  Lewis.    Stamford,  Vt.,  1889 — 95;   Hancock, 

189s — 99;     North   Sunderland    (acting),   1900 — 1901. 
Powell,    J.    M.      Calvary,    Haverhill,    1876 — 78;     Lawrence, 

Olive   (extinct),   1882. 
Powell,  Prosper.    Three  Rivers,  1840 — 42. 
Powers,    Charles    Ransom.      Marlboro,    1886 — 92 ;     Boston, 

Immanuel,      1895 — 1900;      Dorchester,     Berean     Temple, 

1902 — 
Powers,  Levi  M.     Bolton,  1837 — 43. 
Pratt,    Samuel   Hartwell.     Huntington,    1866 — 67;     Salem, 

Calvary,     1867 — 69,     1872 — jT)  ;      Lowell,     Branch     Street, 

1875—76. 
Pray,    Edward   Willard.      North   Reading,    1855 — 57;     East 

Brookfield,  1864 — 66;    Tyringham,  1866—68. 
Preston,    George    Marshall.      Sturbridge.    1855 — 58;     Med- 

ford,    First,    1858 — 68;     Lanesboro,     1878^0;     Cheshire 

and  Lanesboro,  1880 — 90;    East  Granville,  1890 — 96. 
Price,  James  A.     Sharon,  1899 — 
Price,  J.  R.     Buckland,  1839 — 40. 
Pride,    Edward    William.      Boston,    Dearborn    Street    (now 

Bethany),   1870 — 79;    North  Tewksbury,   1878 — 91. 
Pride,  Frank  A.    Dalton,  1902 — 

Probert,  H.     West  Dedham    (now  Westwood),   1890 — 91. 
Pryor,   John.      Old    Cambridge,    1850 — 62;     North   Randolph 

(acting),  1868 — 69:    Lexington,  1869 — 80. 
PuLis,  J.  D.    Russell,  1860—62. 

Purmont,  Lewis  B.     Gay  Head,  1896 — 1901 ;    Florida,  1901 — 
PuRiNTON,  Jesse  M.     Colerain,  First,  1837 — 41. 
Purvis,   Francis.     Brewster,    1881 — 82;     Rehoboth.    1883—84. 
Putnam,  Alanson  Harris.    Boston.  Elm  Hill,  1888 — 95. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 93 

Putnam,  Benjamin.  Marshficld,  1823 — 30;  Springfield, 
First,   1830 — 35;    Billerica,   First,   1846--51. 

Quick,  George  W.     Springfield,  Highland,  1888 — 

Raboteau,  Claude.    Lowell,  Worthen  Street,  1892 — 94. 
Rand,   Thomas.      West    Springfield,    Second    (now    Holyoke, 
First),     1803 — 28,     1843 — 47;      New     Salem      (extinct), 

1830—35- 

Randall,  C.     Raynham,   1848 — 49;    Somerset,   1850 — 52. 

Randall,  George  W.     Billerica,  First,  1841 — 42. 

Randall,  R.   C.     Somerset,   1849. 

Randall,  Silas  Burrows.  Woburn,  First,  1841 — 47;  Andover, 
1847—48. 

Randolph,  J.  R.  jNIalden,  St.  Luke's  (now  Centre  Street), 
1896 — 1900. 

Randolph,  Peter.  Boston,  Ebenezer,  1872 — 73;  West  New- 
ton, Myrtle,  1877—78. 

Randolph,   Warren.     Boston,   Harvard    Street,    1863 — 67. 

Rankin,  Henry  Boas.     Turner's  Falls,  1891 — 92. 

Rapson,  James  Fred.     Whitman,  1888 — 90. 

Rathbun,  Valentine.     W.  Bridgewater,   1802 — 11. 

Raymond,  George  Theron.  North  Tewksbury,  1876 — 78; 
Boston,    Bethany,    1891 — 94;     Gloucester,    First,    1894 — 97- 

Raymond,  J.  T.     Boston,  Independent,  1845 — 46. 

Rea,  James.     Boston,   Bethel,   1900 — 1902. 

Read,  Andrew.  Sturbridge,  1858 — 61;  Hanover,  1862 — 82; 
Bolton,  1883—89. 

Read,  Edward  Andrew.     Needham,   1881 — 83. 

Read,  James.     Attleboro,  First,  1802 — 14. 

Read,  John.     Wrentham   (extinct),  1830;    Dighton,  1833 — 36. 

Read,  Joseph  B.  Brewster,  1867 — 69 ;  Belchertown,  1869 — yz ; 
South  Hanson,  1872 — 83,  1898 — 1900;  Shutesbury,  1891 — 94, 
1889;    Chatham,  1894 — 95. 

Read,  Samuel  Austin.  Fiskdale,  1885 — 89;  Agawam, 
1889 — 98;    Springfield,  Carlisle  Mission,   1899 — 

Read,  William.  Norton,  1850 — 52;  Barnstable,  Third, 
1852—55;  Georgetown,  1855—57;  Raynham,  1857—59; 
Somerset,  1861  ;  Fiskdale,  1866 — ^7;  South  Wilbraham 
(extinct),  1867 — 70;  Gardner,  1870 — 75;  Littleton, 
1875—78;  Leominster,  1878;  Still  River,  1879—85; 
Belchertown,    1885—88;     Barre,    1888— 1900. 

Reader,  J.  J.  Marblehead,  1884—86;  Lowell,  Fifth  Street, 
1886—87. 

Rector,  Frank.     Fitchburg,  First,  1886 — 1900. 

Reding,  Charles  William.  West  Townsend,  1841 — 44;  Bev- 
erly Farms,  1848 — 56,  1861 — 63  ;  Manchester,  1856 — 61 ; 
Webster,  1863—69;    Milford,  1869—70. 

Reed,  N.  A.     Winchester,  First,  1852 — 53. 


194  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Reed,  IMiles  Newton.  Winthrop,  1874 — 75 ;  Maplewood, 
1875 — T] ;  Baldwinsville,  1878 — 81 ;  Holliston,  1889 — 95  ; 
Greenfield,  Second,  1899 — 1901 ;    Lee,  1902 — 

Reed,  S.  R.     Beverly  Farms,  1887. 

Reese^  Charles  Abraham.  Boston,  Dearborn  Street  (now 
Bethany),   1878 — 83;    Lawrence,  First,   1895 — 96. 

Reeves^  D.  M.     Boston,  Bowdoin  Square,  1871. 

Reid,  George  Darius.  Edgartown,  1877 — 80;  Orange, 
1 88 1 — 90. 

Reid,  James  D.     Athol,  1858—60. 

Remington,  Benj.  F.  Savoy,  First,  1825 — 28;  Leyden,  1830; 
Bernardston,  1832 — 2>Z\  Bernardston  and  Shelburne,  First 
(extinct),  1833 — 36;  Buckland  and  Charlemont,  1836; 
North  Leverett  and  Montague,  1838 — 40;  Rowe  and 
Charlemont,  1846 — 47;  Charlemont,  1847 — 48;  Bernards- 
ton,  1848 — 49. 

Remington,   Frank.     Lawrence,   Second,    1856 — 58,    1861 — 62. 

Remington,  Stephen.  Fitchburg,  First,  1846;  Boston,  Bald- 
win Place  (now  Warren  Avenue),  1862 — 64;  Greenfield, 
First,  1864—67. 

Reynolds,  Asa  Edward.  Natick,  1869 — 83 ;  Cambridge, 
Broadway,  1890 — 95;    North  Tewksbury,  1895 — 99. 

Reynolds,  L.  J.     Peru    (extinct)   and  Hinsdale,   1833 — 34. 

Reynolds,  William  Job,  Jr.     Peabody,  1891 — 92. 

Rhees,  H.   H.     Southbridge,   Central,   1872 — 76. 

Rhoades,  Charles  Lyman.  Lexington,  1883;  West  Acton, 
1883—87;  Boston,  Fourth  Street  (extinct),  1888—89; 
Somerville,  Perkins  Street,  1889 — 90;  East  Somerville, 
1890 — 92. 

Rice,  Lorenzo.  Whately  (extinct),  1837 — 38;  Sunderland 
and  Montague,  1839 — 42. 

Rice,  Nathaniel.     Charlemont,  1824 — 25. 

Rice,  Walter.    West  Acton,  1865 — 67;    Agawam,  1891 — 92. 

Rice,  W.  H.    Conway,  1836 — yj- 

Rice,  Wilbur  Taylor.     Edgartown,   1895 — 98. 

Richards,  Humphrey.  Springfield,  First,  1844 — 46;  Dorches- 
ter, First,  1846 — 54. 

Richards,  Samuel.  Sutton,  First,  1842—43;  Edgartown, 
1844—47.  ^         .       o  ^ 

Richards,  William  Coolidge.  Grafton,  Second,  1841 — 46; 
West  Townsend,  1846—47;  Lynn,  First,  1849—64;  Pitts- 
field,  First.   1865—67;    Newton,  Second,   1870—76. 

Richards,  Zalmon.     Chesterfield.   1847 — 48. 

Richardson,   Charles   Carrol.     Brewster,   1897. 

Richardson,  E.  D.     Edgartown,  1902 — 

Richardson,  Horace.     West  Acton,   1846 — 53. 

Richardson,  John  Gano.  South  Danvers,  1845 — 47;  Law- 
rence, First,  1847 — 53;  Newburyport,  1853—56;  Milford, 
1871—77. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 95 

Richardson,    Justin    Kent.      Maplewood,    1871 — 75;     East 

Boston,     Central     Square,     1883 — 86;      Brockton,     First, 

1886 — 1900. 
Richardson,    Samuel.      Middleboro,    First,    1858 — 62. 
Richmond,    Willis     C.      Cambridge,     Charles    River     (now 

Immanuel,    1884 — 92;    Southbridge,   Central,   1893 — 95- 
RiCKER,  Joseph.     Woburn,  First,  1852 — 58;    Milford,  Central, 

1861—65. 
RiCKETT,  J.  H.    East  Brookfield,  1840 — 41. 
Riddle,  J.   W.     Charlestown,   First,   1881 — 83. 
RiDDELL,  Rudolph  R.     Palmer,  1872 — jt,  ;    Wakefield,  1878 — 82. 
Rider,  Wilson  C.     Northboro,  1837. 
RiGLER,  G.  W.    Maplewood,  1889 — 91. 
Ripley,    Nathaniel.      Colerain,    Second,    1838 — 41 ;     Rowe, 

1841^46. 
Ripley,  Silas.   North  Marshfield,  1833 — 43  I  Foxboro,  1839 — 41, 

1844 — 54;     Northboro,    1855 — 65;     Nantucket,   First,    1866. 
Ripley,   Thomas   Baldwin.     Woburn,   First.    1834 — 35. 
Rising,  M.  H.     Russell,  1849 — 50;    Southwick,  1858 — 59. 
Ritchie,  T.    Boston,  Independent  (now  St.  Paul's),  1832 — 33. 
Robbins,    Austin.      North    Uxbridge,    1844 — 48;     Southboro, 

1859—65. 
Robbins,  Eleazer.     Shirley,  1855. 
Robbins,    Gilbert.      Sterling,    1858;     Newton    Corner    (now 

Immanuel),  i860;    Grafton,  First,  1862 — 67. 
Roberts,    John    Dwight.      Huntington,    1897 — 1900. 
Robinson,  Amos.     Raynham,   1883 — 89. 
Robinson,   Asa   Aspinwall.     West   Springfield,   First    (now 

Agawam),  1849 — 52;    Wales,  1852 — 56;   Russell,  1872 — 78; 

North  Sunderland,  1878 — 79. 
Robinson,  Daniel.     Conway,  1862. 
Robinson,  E.  E.     Cambridge,  Old.  1846 — 47. 
Robinson,  Fred  Arthur.     Dighton    (acting),   1896—97. 
Robinson,     George.       Harvard,     1802 — 11;      Colerain,     First, 

1826 — 2,7- 
Robinson,  G.  G.     Lawrence,  Olive  (extinct),  1887. 
Robinson,  Julius  Brown.     Milford,  1873 — 79'.    West  Spring- 
field, First,  1881—84;   Leominster,  1886—88;   North  Biller- 

ica,  1888—91 ;    West  Boylston,  1896— 
RocKwooD,  Joseph   Monroe.     Belchertown,   1849 — 55;    North 

Grafton,    1857—64;     Middlefield,    1865—90. 
Rogers,  Clark.     Hancock,    1802 — 04. 
Rogers,  Daniel.     Huntington,  1873 — 75. 
Rogers,  Henry  Aaron.     Worcester,   Main   Street,   1883 — 86; 

Worcester,  South,  1886—89. 
Rogers,  Joseph  D.     Hancock,    1835 — 36,   1839. 
Rogers,  Thomas  Lucindus.    North  Scituate,  1871 — 74. 
Rogers,  Thomas  S.     North  Adams,   1838 — 40. 
Rogers,  W.  H.     East  Milton,  1896 — 1902;    Ipswich,   1902 — 


196  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

RoHNSTROM,   A.     Brockton,    Swede,    1887 — 88. 

Rood,  Ellsworth  Craig.     Shirley   (acting),  1895. 

Roos,  John  A.     Gardner,  Swede,  1900. 

Root,  Silas.     Granville,  1824 — 44. 

Ropes,  Timothy  P.     Weston,   1830 — 2)2;    Lexington,  1846. 

Rose,  O.  J.     Williamstown,  1895 — 98. 

Ross,  William   Milton.     North  Billerica,   1868 — 71. 

Round,   Daniel.     Nantucket,   First,    1840 — 44;     North  Wren- 

tham  (extinct),  1864 — 68;    Baldwinville,  1868 — 69;  Frank- 
lin, 1870 — 72;  Still  River,  1874—79;    Nantucket,  1879 — 81; 

Norfolk,  1885—99- 
Rounds,    John.      Chelmsford,    Central,     1868 — 72;     Holden, 

1872—74. 
Rouse,  H.  H.     Conway,  1842 — 45. 
RowE,     Charles     Henry.       Dorchester,     Stoughton     Street, 

1866—71;     Weymouth,    1871 — 74;     Wollaston,    1874 — 78; 

Cambridge,    Charles    River    (now    Immanuel),    1878 — 81; 

Randolph,   1884,   1888—90;    Whitman.    1885—88. 
Rowe,  George  Edwin.     Spencer,  1895 — 96. 
Rowley,  Francis  H.     North  Adams,   1884 — 92;    Fall  River, 

First,    1896— 1900;     Boston,   First,    1900 — 
Rowley,  William   Franklin.     North  Grafton,  1895 — 1900. 
RowsE,  William  Allen  Chipman.     Pocasset,  1889-^2. 
RuBERG,   George  L.     Bernardston,    1861 — 65 ;    Colerain,   First, 

1865—67;      Hancock,     1867 — 74;      Sandisfield,     1874 — 76; 

Middleboro,  First,  1876 — 79;    Hinsdale,  1879 — 82;    Florida, 

1883 — 87;  Egremont,  1887 — 93;  West  Royalston,  1893 — 96. 
Russell,  A.  A.     West  Stockbridge   (extinct),  1847 — 48. 
Russell,    James    W.      Milford,    Central,    1853 — 55 ;     North 

Uxbridge,  1855—63. 
Russell,  P.  R.    Manchester,  1850 — 51;  Georgetown,  1852 — 53; 

Canton,   1854—57;    Middleboro,  Third    (Rock),   1858—59. 
Russell,   R.     Southwick,   1847 — 48. 
Russell,  Thomas  Clarkson.    Barnstable.  1858 — 60;   Billerica, 

1860--63 ;       South      Braintree,      1866 — 68 ;       Leominster, 

1868 — 74 ;    Mansfield,  1874 — 77 ;    Palmer  and  Three  Rivers, 

1878—81;    Swampscott,   1883—85;    Wenham,   1897 — 1902; 

Shutesbury,   1902 — 
Ryan,   George   Washington.      Shutesbury,    1855 — 56;     West 

Townsend,     i860 — 64;      Gardner,      1864 — 66;      Chatham, 

1867—71 ;    Franklin,   1873 — 77. 
Ryan,  William  Wade.    Haverhill,  Calvary,  1897 — 1901 ;   New 

Bedford,  Union,  1901 — 
Ryder,    Francis    Wayland.      East    Boston,    Central    Square, 

1887 — 91 ;    Lawrence,   First,   1891 — 95. 

Safford,  De  Forest.     Grafton,  First,  1869 — 70. 
Safford,  Henry  Gilbert.     Salisbury  and  Amesbury,  1861 — 68; 
South  Framingham,   1875 — 84;    Winthrop    (acting),   1885. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 97 

Sage,  Adoniram  Judson.     Shelburne  Falls,   1863 — 67. 
SamsoNj   Abisha.     Harvard,   1819 — 30;    Fayville,    1832 — 40. 
Samson,  George  Whitefield.     Jamaica   Plain,   1850—52. 
Samson,  Thomas  Smallwood.     Newton,  Immanuel,  1873 — 80. 
Sanders,    George    Dana.      East    Gloucester     (now    Chapel 

Street),  i885-93. 
Sanderson,  Amasa.     Littleton,   1824 — 30;    Groton,   1833 — 34, 

1838-43. 
Sanderson,  G.  W.     Ashhfield,  1872 — y2>',    Haverhill,  Calvary, 

1875-76. 
Sanderson,   Pearley   Pritchard.     Beverly   Farms,    1840 — 42; 

Mansfield,      1842 — 44;       Conway,      1846 — 47;       Buckland, 

1847—52. 
Sandys,  Edwin.    Cummington,  1837 — 38;    Pittsfield,  1838 — 41; 

Williamstown,    1842 — 43. 
Sanford,    Miles.      East    Boston,    Central    Square,    1848 — 51 ; 

Gloucester,    1851 — 53;     North    Adams,    1853 — 71. 
Sargent,  H.  S.     Huntington,   1865 — 66. 
Sargent,  Jedediah  W.     Billerica,  1835 — 2>7- 
Sargent,     Lucius     Manlius.       Worcester,     Dewey     Street, 

1872 — 72,;    North  Grafton,  1875 — 86. 
Sargent,  Orison   Clark.     Randolph,   1884 — 88. 
Sargent,  Sylvanus  Gilman.     Barnstable,  1850 — 52. 
Saunders,  Nathan  Crosby.     Chelmsford,   Central,  1880 — 89. 
Savage,  Eleazer.     Fitchburg,  First,  1847 — 52. 
Savage,  John  Wesley.     North  Tisbury  (acting),  1866 — 67. 
Savery,  Samuel.     North  Adams,  1822 — 25. 
Sawtelle,  Henry  Allen.    Chelsea,  Carey  Avenue,  1877 — 82. 
Sawyer,  Artemus  Wyman.     Lawrence,  First,  1853 — 56. 
Sawyer,  Conant.     Maiden,  First,  1833 — 34;    North  Randolph, 

1836 — 38;    Warwick,    1850. 
Sawyer,  Isaac.     South  Reading  (nov.^  Wakefield),  1836 — 37; 

Salisbury  and  Amesbury,   1844 — 48;    Nantucket,   Summer 

Street,    1850;    West   Boylston,    1875 — 76. 
Sawyer,  J.     Fayville,  1866—67;    Gay  Head,  1867—68;    North 

Tisbury,    1874 — 76;     Rochdale     (Greenville),    1876. 
Sayer,  Thomas  S.,  Jr.    Lowell,  Immanuel,  1896— 1900;    Nan- 
tucket, People's,  1900 — 01. 
Scarritt,  James  J.    Becket.  1845 — 47. 
ScATES,  Elmer  Eugene.     North  Billerica,  1899 — 
ScHARF,  Leopold  E.    Bolton,  1891 — 

Schlieman,  William  Emil.    Maplewood,  1891 — 93;  Winches- 
ter, 1894 — 98. 
Schurman,   George  W.     Manchester,   First,    1902 — 
Schwab,  Henry.     Becket,  1896 — 
Schweikert,  Charles.     Long  Plain  (acting),  1897. 
Scott,  Charles  Seaver.     Somerville,  Union  Square,  1887—92; 

Marlboro,    1893 — 96;     Waverley,    First,    1896—98. 


198  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Scott,  D.  J.  South  Yarmouth,  1883 — 85;  Barnstable,  Third, 
1885. 

Scott,  Ernest  L.     Osterville,  1880 — 82;    Holliston,  1882 — 84, 

Scott,  Jacob  Richardson.     Fall  River,  First,  1853 — 55. 

Scott,  W.  H.  Lawrence,  Olive  (extinct),  1880;  Boston,  Cal- 
vary,  1893 — 95  ;    Woburn,   St.  John,   1900 — 

ScoviLLE,  Augustus  Erving.     Melrose,  First,  1900 — 

Seagrave,  Edward.     Scituate,  1830 — 35. 

Seamon,  James  N.     Woburn,  First,   1824 — 25. 

Searll,  James  Warner.  Greenville,  1877 — 81 ;  Cummington, 
1890—93. 

Sears,  Edward  G.  Marshfield,  First  and  North,  1839 — 41 ; 
Sharon,  1842 — 43;    North  Wrentham   (extinct),  1844 — 47. 

SeaveRj  Horace.     Hanover,  1837. 

Seaver,  Joseph  Hamden.  Marshfield,  First,  1855 — 56, 
1868 — 69;  Brewster,  1857 — 58;  Georgetown,  1858--62; 
Barnstable,  Third,  1863—65;  Lee,  1870 — 71;  South  Yar- 
mouth, 1875 — 77;  Merrimacport  (extinct),  1878 — 82; 
Cummington,  1882 — 83;    Charlemont   (acting),  1885. 

Selleck,  Lewis.     West  Stockbridge   (extinct),  1844 — 46. 

Serrington,  W.  B.     Boston,  Independent   (now   St.   Paul's), 

1847—49. 

Severance,    Samuel    Augustus.      Maplewood,    1883 — 89. 

Seymour,  Robert  G.  Boston,  Ruggles  Street,  1870 — 88; 
Lowell,  First,   1893 — 95. 

Shailer,  Davis  Tyler.  Dorchester,  North  (now  Stoughton 
Street),   1844—47;    Becket,    1848—57. 

Shailer,  Julius  Smith.  Roxbury,  Tremont  (extinct), 
1845—54. 

Shailer,  William   Hosmer.     Brookline,   1837 — 54. 

Sharp,  Daniel.  Boston,  Third  (afterwards  Charles  Street, 
extinct),  1812 — 53. 

Shaw,  Avery  A.     Brookline,  1900 — 

Shaw,  Edward  Bayard.     Amherst,  1902 — 

Shaw,  Erastus  Melville.     Beverly  Farms,  1881 — 84. 

Shaw,  John  Abisha.     Hyannis,  1889 — 91. 

Shaw,  M.  A.  N.     Boston,  Twelfth,  1900 — 

Shedd,  William  Henry.  North  Oxford,  1867 — 70;  Waltham, 
First,  1870 — 72. 

Shepard,  Nathan.  Boston,  Tremont  Street  (extinct), 
1860—61. 

Shepardson,  Daniel.     Hancock,   1874 — 82. 

Shepardson,  John,  2d.  Petersham,  1843 — 44;  New  Salem 
(extinct),  1844 — 45;  New  Salem  and  Prescott  (extinct), 
1845 — 49;  Petersham,  1849 — 72;  Wales,  1872 — 76;  Green- 
field and  Turner's  Falls,  1876 — 80;  Greenfield  and  Ber- 
nardston.   1880—81;    Greenfield,  1881—86. 

Shepardson,  Lucius  Franklin.  Stamford,  Vt.,  1862;  War- 
wick,    1865 — 69;      Three     Rivers,     1869 — 72;      Rehoboth, 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  1 99 

1875—77 ;   Bernardston,  1883 ;  Barnstable,  Third,  1887—88 ; 

Norton,  1890. 
Shepardson,  S.  T.     Stamford,  Vt.,   1863. 
Shepherd,  G.     Ashfield,  1884—85;    Baldwinsville,  1887—88. 
Sheppard,  T.  W.     Scituate,  First,  1883 — 87. 
Sherwin,  E.  H.     Greenfield,  1901 — 
Sherwood,  Daniel.     Egremont,  181 1 — 19. 
Sherwood,  Richard  Otis.    North  Abington,  1886 — 90;  Adams, 

1890 — 93  ;     Somerville,    First,    1898— 
Shields,    Augustus     P.      Ashfield,     1881 — 82;      Gay    Head, 

1882—84;    Hinsdale.   1886—87. 
Shipman,  John  N.     Peabody,  1885 — 90;    Dorchester,  Blaney 

Memorial,     1890 — 95;      Athol,     1895 — 1900;      Brookville, 

1901 — 
Shuh,  Manford  W.    Westboro,  1902 — 
Shumway,  Walter  Bradley.    Swampscott,  1900 — 
Shurtleff,  Flavel.     Bridgewater,    1819;    Warren,   1820 — 21; 

North     Tisbury,     1833 — 34;      Pembroke     (extinct),     and 

Hanson,  1837 — 45. 
Sibley,  Clark.     Manslield,  1841 — 43  ;    Harvard,  1843 — 50. 
Sibley,  George  F.     Shutesbury,  1901 — 02. 
Simmons,    Charles    E.      Southwick,    1871 — 74;     Springfield, 

First.  1874-75. 
Simmons,  Charles  Gilbert.    Rowe  and  Charlemont,  1890 — 92; 

Northboro,   1898^1902. 
Simons,  A.  H.    Lanesboro,  1857 — 58;    Agawam,  1874 — 82. 
SiMONsoN,  George  Allen.     Woburn,  1882 — 84. 
Simonds,     Samuel.       West     Royalston     and     Winchendon, 

1824—35. 
Simpson,  Douglas  Haszard.     Middleboro,  First,   1892 — 94. 
Skinner,  Benjamin  R.     Ware  (extinct),  1828. 
Skinner,  Henry  C.     Sandisfield,  First  and  Second,  1830. 
Skinner,    Courtland    Addison.      South    Groton     (extinct), 

1864 — 65;     Dorchester,    Fairmount     (now    Hyde    Park), 

1865—66;    Millbury.   1867—68. 
Skinner,  Henry  C.     Sandisfield,  1830 — 31. 
Slade,  Elisha,  Jr.     Somerset,  1830 — 44. 
Season,  William  N.     Hanover,  1849 — 53. 
Sleeper,   Frank  B.     Braintree,  1873—74;    Everett,  1874—77; 

Gardner,     1877 — 86;      Plymouth.     1886 — 92;      iMarblehead, 

1892 — 96;     Franklin,    1899 — 1901  ;     Rowley,    1901 — 
Slocum,  Henry  Truman.    Petersham,  1892 — 93;  West  Royal- 
ston and  Warwick,  1900 — 
Slocum,  William  Franklin.     Orange,  1890 — 94. 
Small,  A.  K.  P.     Fall  River,  First,  1874-83- 
Smalledge,  Joseph.     Shutesbury,  1824 — 28. 
Smallman,  William   Murray.     Winthrop,   1896 — 99. 
Smith,   Amasa.     West   Bridgewater,   1815 — 16. 


200  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Smith,  A.  M.    Westfield,  First  and  Central,  1832 — 34. 

Smith,  Arvin  Augustus.  Boston,  Bethel,  1886 — 88;  Peter- 
sham,  1888 — 90;    North  Sunderland,   1899. 

Smith,  Arthur  Warren.     Kingston,  1899 — 

Smith,  Brown  Esek.  Long  Plain,  189a — 94;  Becket,  1894 — 96; 
North  Sunderland,  1896 — 97;  Turner's  Falls,  1897 — 98; 
New  Bedford,  Immanuel,  1898 — 1900;  Lowell,  Immanuel, 
1900 — 01. 

Smith,  C.  Billings.  Maiden,  First,  1848 — 51 ;  Chicopee,  Cen- 
tral,   1851 — 52;     Nantucket,    1854 — 55. 

Smith,  Charles  M.  East  Stoughton  (now  Avon),  1862 — 69; 
Greenfield,  1869 — 70;  Somerville,  First,  1870 — S5;  Somer- 
ville,  Union  Square,   1885 — 86. 

Smith,  Ebenezer.    Ashfield  and  Hinsdale,  1802 — xi. 

Smith,  Edward  Presbury.     Stoneham,  1899 — 

Smith,  Eli  Noyes.     Springfield,  Third,  1885 — 89. 

Smith,  Enos.     Ashfield,  1824 — 35. 

Smith,  Francis.     Colerain,  First,  1844. 

Smith,  Harlan  Page.  Wales,  1879 — 80;  Westfield,  1888 — 91; 
Waltham,  Beth-Eden,  1891—94;  Wales  (acting),  1893 — 94; 
Worcester,  Dewey  Street,  1894 — 97;    Waverly,  1900 — 1902. 

Smith,  Hezekiah.     Haverhill,  First,  — 1802 — 04. 

Smith,  Isaac.  East  Stoughton  (now  Avon),  1832 — 53;  Fox- 
boro,   1854 — ^7;     Norton,    1875. 

Smith,  James  Wheaton.    Lowell,  Worthen  Street,  1851 — 53. 

Smith,  Jonathan.     Carver,  1819. 

Smith,  Joseph.  Grafton,  First,  1851 — 57;  North  Oxford, 
1861—66. 

Smith,  Josiah  Torrey.  Lanesboro,  1845 — 46;  Sandisfield, 
1846 — 51;  Hinsdale,  1851 — 53;  Sandisfield,  1853 — 54; 
Amherst,   1856—65;    West  Royalston,    1883—88. 

Smith,  Lucius  Edwin.    Groton,  First,  1858 — 65. 

Smith,  L.  W.     Fayville,   1890. 

Smith,  N.  W.     Fitchburg,  First,  1839 — 40. 

Smith,  Peter.  Springfield,  Pilgrim  (now  Third),  1874  —  80; 
Boston,  Independent    (now   St.    Paul's),   1882 — 95. 

Smith,  Samuel  Francis.  Newton  Centre,  1842 — 54;  Need- 
ham,  1878—80. 

Smith,  S.  H.     West  Newton,  Myrtle,  1902 — 

Smith,  Sherman  Gibson.     Palmer,   i860 — 61. 

Smith,  T.  D.     Beverly  Farms,  1885 — 86. 

Smith,  Wesley  Lorenzo.  Weymouth,  1888 — 94;  Fells,  1894 — 
97 ;    First  and  West  Bridgewater,  1897 — 

Smith,  William,  Jr.     Chelsea,  1840 — 41. 

Smith,  William  A.  West  Springfield,  1841 ;  West  Farms, 
Westfield,  1844—46;    Chesterfield,  1846. 

Smith,  W.  A.     Somerville,  Perkins  Street.  1881 — 89. 

Smith,  William  B.  Everett,  Fir-st,  1872 — Tz;  Rockport, 
1887 — 92;    Colerain,  First,  1892 — 96. 


FASTOKS   OF  BAFTIST  CHURCHES  201 

Snell,    Amos.      Monson     (extinct),    1836 — iT,     Wilbraham 

(extinct)  and  Monson,  1838 — 40;    Belchertown,  1849 — 51. 
Snell,  Arthur  Lincoln.     Foxboro,  1889 — 91 ;    West  Somer- 

ville,   1891 — 1900;    Fitchburg,  First,  1900 — 
Snell,  Edwin  Fitzson.     West  Newton,  First,  1900 — 
Snow,  Charles  Andrew.   Fall  River,  Second,  1858 — 64;  South 

Abington     (now    Whitman),     1870 — 74;     New    Bedford, 

North,    1875—81;     Fall    River,    Third,    1882— S3;     West 

Harwich,    1886 — 98. 
Sowerby,  Albert  T.    Boston,  South,  1894 — 98. 
Spalding,  Charles  Hubbard.    Pittsfield,  1871 — 75;    Arlington, 

First,  1875 — 80;    South  Boston,  Fourth  Street,  1880 — 86. 
Spalding,  George  Edwin.     Cummington,  1886 — 89. 
Spaulding,   Albert   Day.     Rochdale    (Greenville),   1882 — 86; 

Somerset,    1889 — 93;     Scituate,    First,    1893 — 1900. 
Spaulding,  Amos  Fletcher.     Cambridge,  Second,  1852 — 57. 
Spear,  Charles  Clarence.     Baldwinsville,  1884 — 86. 
Spencer,  Hezekiah  Albert.    Milford,  1882 — 87. 
Spencer,  James  H.     North  Adams,  1897 — 
Spencer,  Orson.    West  Stockbridge  (extinct),  1830;    Middle- 
field,  1837 — 42. 
Spencer,  W.     Quincy  Point   (extinct),  1888. 
Spencer,  William  Henry.    Foxboro,  1869 — 79. 
Sperrey,  B.  N.     Littleton,  1872 — 75. 
Spidell,    Wilbert    Freeman.      Shirley     (acting),    1897 — 98; 

West  Townsend,  1899 — 1901. 
Spinney,  William  Almor.     Scituate,  First,  1880 — 82. 
Squire,  James.      Sandisfield,    1839 — 4i- 
Stackpole,  Stephen   Henry.     Westboro,    187 1 — t:>). 
Stanton,  John  Giles.     North   Oxford,   1894 — 1901;    Wood- 

ville,  1901 — 
Stanton,  William  E.     Lowell,  First,  1865 — 69. 
Stark,   Dyer.     Williamstown,  — 1802 — 04. 
Stearns,  A.   H.     Ashfield,   1849 — 50;    Charlemont,   1858—59; 

Westfield,   Second    (extinct),    i860. 
Stearns,  E.  D.     Conway,  1878^—79. 
Stearns,  Oakman  Sprague.     Southbridge,  Central,  1847 — 54; 

Newton,  First,   1855—68. 
Stearns,  Orrin  O.     Sturbridge   (now  Fiskdale),  1838 — 39. 
Steenstra,  p.  H.    Dorchester,  North  (now  Stoughton  Street), 

1860—63. 
Stetson,  H.     Orleans,  1855;    West  Newbury  and  Haverhill, 

Second,  1880 — 84. 
Stetson,  Nathan.     Hanover,  1839 — 41 ;    Chatham,  1841. 
Stevens,  Edwin  J.     Sutton,  First,  1872,  1876. 
Stevens,  George  E.     Boston,  Calvary,  1899 — 
Stevens,    Henry    S.      Wilbraham    and    Monson    (extinct), 

1856—57. 
Stevens,  L.  C.     East  Brookfield,  1870 — 78. 


202  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

StewarTj   Henry   Greene.      Seekonk    (extinct),    1850 — 52. 

Stewart,  John.     New  Bedford,  North,  1895 — 1901. 

Stewart,  William  H.    Orleans  (extinct),  1859 — 61;  Hanover, 

1861—63;    Norfolk,  1874;    Swampscott,  1889 — 91;    North 

Easton,  1892;    Becket,  1892 — 93. 
Stewart,  William  J.     Boston,  Harvard  Street,  1901. 
Stickney,  William.     Deerfield    (extinct),    1854 — 55. 
Stillman,  E.     Dighton,  1847 — 50. 
Stillman,   Samuel.     Boston,   First,  — 1802 — 07. 
Stimpson,  Samuel  M.    Allston,  Brighton  Avenue,  1859 — 61. 
Stith,  G.   L.     Haverhill,   Calvary,   1893 — 94. 
Stockbridge,    John    Calvin.      Woburn,     1847 — 52;     Boston, 

Charles     Street     (extinct),     1853 — 61;      Boston,    Baldwin 

Place   (now  Warren  Avenue),  1861 — 62;    Chelsea,  Carey 

Avenue,  1863 — 65. 
Stockwell,     G.     S.       Amherst,     1855 — 56;      Colerain,     First, 

1856 — 57;    Bernardston,    1858 — 60. 
Stoddard,     Darius     Hicks.       Athol,     1867 — y2i !      Worcester. 

Dewey     Street,     1884 — 93;      Chicopee,     First,     1893 — 98; 

Greendale   (acting),  1901 — 
Stone,  D.  J.     Quincy  Point   (extinct),  1868. 
Stone,  Gilman.     Sutton,  First,  1866. 
Stone,  J.  A.   B.     Gloucester  Harbor    (First),  1841 — 42. 
Stone,  Walter  Lincoln.     Sterling,    1897 — 98. 
Storer,  J.     Haverhill,  Second,  1873 — 79. 
Stover,  Eben  Colby.     Franklin,  1884 — 87;    Chicopee,  Central, 

1897 — 1901 ;     Palmer,    1901 — 
Stow,    Baron.      Boston.    Second    (afterward    Baldwin    Place, 

now   Warren   Avenue),    1832 — 48;    Boston,   Rowe    Street 

(now  Clarendon  Street),  1848 — 67. 
Stow,  Ebenezer.    Becket,  181 1 — 17;   Chester,  1818. 
Stow,    William.      Charlestown    and    Somerville.     1845 — 50; 

North  Tisbury,   1850 — 52;    Colerain,  First,  1852 — 55. 
Stowe,  Phineas.     South  Danvers   (now  Peabody),  1844 — 45; 

Boston,  Bethel,  1850—68. 
Stowell,   Austin   H.      Seekonk    (extinct),    1858 — 59;     South 

Boston,  Fourth  Street   (extinct),  i860 — 62. 
Stratton,     J.     V.       Waltham,     First,     1880 — 87 ;      Andover, 

1888—89. 
Strong,  Augustus  H.    Haverhill,  First,  1861 — 65. 
Stubbert,  John  Roman.     South  Framingham,  1891 — 93. 
Stubbert,  William  F.    Abington  (now  Whitman),  1846 — 51; 

Maiden,    First,     1851—59;      North    Randolph,     1859—65; 

Watertown,  1865—67;    Everett,  First,  1878 — 79. 
Studley,  James    Nash.      Marshfield,   First,    1881—86;     Graf- 
ton,  First,   1889 — 91. 
Stumm,  C.  C.     Boston,  Ebenezer,  1884 — 86. 
Sullivan,  Frank  Louis.    Holliston,  1880 — 82. 
SuNDMARK,  C.  W.  Worcester,  Harlem  Street,  Swede,  1897 — 99. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  203 

Sutherland,  F.  P.     Natick,  1884 — 86. 

SwAFFiELD,  Walter  James.     Boston,   Bethel,    1888 — 96. 

SwAiM,  Joseph  S.    New  Bedford,  First.  1890 — 

Swaim,   Samuel   Budd.     Worcester,    First,    1838 — 54;     West 

Cambridge   (now  Arlington),  1854 — 62;    Lexington   (act- 
ing), 1864. 
Swain,  A.  M.     Georgetown,  1849 — 50;    Leominster,  1850 — 54. 
Swan,  Charles  Y.     Northampton,   1870 — 72;    Boston,  Bow- 

doin  Square,  1872 — 76. 
Sward,  A.  P.    Worcester,  First  Swede,  1889. 
Sweat,  A.  R.     Plainfield  (extinct),  1850 — 52. 
Sweet,   Alexander   H.     Hinsdale,    1841 — 43 ;    Chester    (now 

Huntington),      1844;       Blandford      (extinct),      1848—49; 

Savoy,   First,    1853—54- 
Sweet,     Elnathan.       Cheshire,     Third,     1825 — 32 ;      Adams, 

1832 — 39  (with  Cheshire,  Third,  1833 ;   with  Williamstown, 

1836)  ;    Hancock,    1840. 
Sweet,  Enoch  Hants.     Ayer  and  Shirley,  1886 — 87;    North 

Brockton  and  Brookville,   1888—90;    Mansfield,   1895 — 98. 
Sweet,  John  Davis.     Billerica,  First,   1863 — 68;    Somerville, 

First,  1868—69. 
SwETT,  Charles  Darius.     Manchester,  1873 — 74;    Middleboro, 

Third,  1876—82;  Hanover,  1882—84;  Northboro,  1884—90; 

Fells,  1890 — 93. 
SwETT,  Lyman  R.    Catpbridge,  Broadway,  1895 — 99;  Dorches- 
ter, Blaney  Memorial,  1899 — 
Sykes,   James    Noble.      North    Reading,    1843 — 45;     Chelsea, 

First,   1851 — 58;     Newburyport,    1859 — 70. 
Symonds,   James    Munroe.      Salisbury  and    Amesbury,    1849. 

Taggart,  Richmond.  Beverly,  First,  1829 — 30;  West  Spring- 
field,  Second,    1828 — 29. 

Tandy,  Lorenzo.  Tewksbury,  1850 — 51 ;  Middleboro,  First, 
1852—57;  Barre,  1858—59;  Montague,  1859—61;  West 
Royalston,  1861 — 66;  Mashpee,  1870 — 72;  Savoy,  1872—75. 

T.\TE,  J.    Bradford  (extinct),  1872. 

Taylor,  Chase.     Marshfield,  First   (acting),  1863. 

Taylor,  D.     Leominster,  1847 ;    East  Brookfield,  1854 — 55. 

Taylor,  D.  H.  Salem,  Calvary,  1874— 77;  Jamaica  Plain, 
1877—86. 

Taylor,  Ellwyn  Osmer.  Billerica.  First,  1888 — 91 ;  Tremont 
Temple  (assistant  pastor),  1891 — 92;  Charlestown.  Bunker 
Hill,  1892—95 ;   West  Royalston  and  Warwick,  1897— 1901. 

Taylor,  Ora  James.     Shutesbury.  1888 — 91. 

Taylor,  William  H.     South  Dartmouth   (extinct),  1844—46. 

Tedford,  C.  E.     Granville,   1902 — 

Temple,  J.  F.     Southwick,  1859 — 66. 

Terry,  Thomas.     Southwick,  1886 — 90,  1899 — 1902. 

Terry,  W.  O.     Belchertown,  1902 — 


204  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Terry,    Wilson     R.       North     Tisbury    and     West    Tisbury, 

1890 — 92;    Colerain,  First  and   Second,   1898 — 
Thatcher,  James  J.    Swansea,  1846 — 54;  Rehoboth,  1854 — 57 » 

Orleans    (extinct),   1862 — 64;    Gay   Head,    1869 — ^2. 
Thatcher,  S.  T.    West  Amesbury  (now  Merrimac),  1854 — 57. 
Thayer,   Fred   Forest.     Belchertown    (acting),   1892;    Ayer, 

1897 — 99;      Cottage     City,     1899 — 1900;      Sutton,     First, 

1900 — 02. 
Thayer,  J.     Sutton,   Second,   1848 — 49;    Webster,   1849 — 50; 

Sutton,  First,  1850 — 52. 
Thomas,  B.  H.    Athol,  1893 — 95. 
Thomas,    Ernest   Alonzo.      Three    Rivers    (acting),    1899 — 

1900;    Spencer,  1900 — 02. 
Thomas,  Eugene  Ellis.     North  Tewksbury,  1873 — 76;    New- 

buryport,  1884 — 88. 
Thomas,  George  William.    Roslindale,  1879—81. 
Thomas,  Henry  P.     Springfield,  Berean  (extinct),  i88r. 
Thomas,   Leo  Boone.     Worcester,   Main   Street,   1896 — 1901 ; 

Dorchester,  Stoughton  Street,  1901 — 
Thomas,     Oscar     Dwight.       West     Springfield.     1876 — 78; 

Brockton,  First,  1878 — 86;    Brookville  (acting),  1900. 
Thomas,  S.  A.    North  Tisbury,  1854—58;   Millbury,  1858—60; 

West  Tisbury,   1862 — 69. 
Thomas,  William   Nelson.     Glendale,   1893 — 94. 
Thombs,  Arthur  Benjamin.     Winthrop,  1886—88. 
Thompson,     Charles     L.      Osterville,     1865 — 67 ;      Gardner, 

1867—68;    Manchaug,  1868—70,  1876—77;    Granville,  1881. 
Thompson,  Hiram.     Spencer,  i860. 
Thompson,  N.  B.     Melrose,  First,  1875 — "jy. 
Thompson,  Thomas  Harrison.     Woburn,  St.  John's,  1889. 
Thompson,  William.    Boston,  Independent  (now  St.  Paul's), 

1851—54- 
Thompson,  William  J.    Ipswich,  1897. 
Thompson,    William    Ricker.      Allstcn,    Brighton    Avenue, 

1868—71;    Fayville,  1874—77;    West  Townsend,  1877 — 80. 
Thwing,    Melville    Cox.      Lowell,    Fifth    Street,    1877 — 81 ; 

Brockton,  North  (acting),  1884—86. 
TiLDEN,    Chester.      Belchertown,    1838 — 43;     Three    Rivers, 

1843 — 44;     Blandford    (extinct),    1856—57;     Huntington, 

1858-59. 
TiLDEN,  Horace  Wayland     Hyde  Park.  1884 — 89. 
TiLDEN,  Howard  Benjamin.     Edgartown,  1885 — 88. 
TiLDEN,   Nathan  F.     Fiskdale.    1902 — 
Tilley,  Charles  Coffin.     Hyde  Park,   1898 — 
TiLSON,    Jno.      Hingham,    1851—76;      Northboro,     1878 — 82; 

Rowley,  1884 — 91  ;    West  Newbury,  1894 — 95- 
TiLTON,  John  Freeman.     Dedham,  Second,  1898 — 
Tilton,   Josiah    H.     Gardner.    1845 — 48;     Holden,    1848 — 52; 

West     Amesbury     (now     Merrimac),     1852 — 54;      Lynn, 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  205 

Second  (now  Washington  Street),  1854 — 56;  Holden, 
1858 — 59;  East  Brookfield,  1859 — 63;  Kingston,  1863—66; 
Palmer,  1869—70;  Orange,  1870 — 71;  North  Uxbridge, 
1871—76;  Chelmsford,  First,  1881—85;  North  Reading, 
1885—89. 

TiMESON,  W.  Roy.     Greenfield,  Second,  1902 — 

TiNGLEY,  James  William.     Middleboro,  First,  1887 — 92. 

TiNGLEY,   S.   L.     Rehoboth    (acting),   1893. 

TiNGLEY,  Timothy  Cheever.  Foxboro,  1831 — 2>7\  West  Cam- 
bridge (now  Arlington),  1838 — 45;  Canton,  1845 — 48; 
West  Boylston,  1851—54;  Holden,  1854—57;  Scituate, 
1857 — 63;'  Somerset,   1863 — 69;    Raynham,  1877 — 83. 

Titus,  George  Boice.  Northboro  (acting),  1883;  Everett, 
First,   1890 — 1900;    Brockton,   First,   1900 — 

Titus,  H.  F.     Newton,  Immanuel,  1881-^8. 

TjERNLUND,  Axel.  Boston,  First  Swede,  1880—85,  1888 — 97; 
Worcester,  First  Swede,  1897 — 98. 

ToBEY,  James  J.    Carver,  First,  1890 — 93;    Hanover,  1893—99. 

ToBEY,  Zalmon.    Rehoboth,  1852 — 53. 

Todd,  Asa.  Chesterfield,  Second,  1803 — 19,  1827,  1843 ;  Savoy, 
First,   1820 — 21 ;    Russell,    1822. 

ToLMAN,  C.  F.     Lawrence,  Second,   1862 — 64. 

Tolman,  Robert  Francis,  Jr.  Melrose,  First,  1878 — 86; 
Gardner,   1886 — 92. 

Tonkin,  Henry.  East  Longmeadow,  1833 — 34;  Barre, 
1834—35;    Warwick,    1836—37. 

ToPLiFF,  Calvin  Howe.  Charlestown  and  Somerville,  1850 — 52 ; 
Weston,   1853—67. 

Torrey,  Joseph.  Pembroke  (extinct),  1816 — 20,  with  Hanson, 
1821 — 25. 

Tower,  Francis  Emory.  Amherst,  1868—72;  Allston,  Brigh- 
ton Avenue,  1872 — 83. 

TowLE,  Francis  Warren.    North  Attleboro,  1883—86. 

Towne,  Charles  A.  Salem,  Central,  1881—90;  Gardner, 
First,  1898— 

TowNLEY,  H.  C.  Woburn,  First,  1866 — 72;  Cambridge,  Sec- 
ond, 1873 — 75;   Boston,  Charles  Street  (extinct),  1875 — 76. 

TowNSEND,  CuLLEN.     Middlcfield,  1832—33. 

TowNSEND,  George  Nelson.  Woodville,  1842 — 44;  Reading, 
Second,   1845—48;    South   Milford    (acting),   1851-55. 

Townsend,  James  J.     Conway,   1867 — 68. 

TozER,  Robert  H.     Sharon,  1864 — 65. 

ToziER,  Jared  IMiller.  North  Leverett,  1888 — 90;  Mashpee, 
1890 — 92. 

Tracy,  Leonard.  West  Boylston,  1838—48;  Still  River, 
1863—68. 

Tracy,  Oren.  Randolph,  1825 ;  Townsend,  1838—41 ;  Fitch- 
burg,  First,  1841—47;  Athol,  1849 — 51;  Greenfield,  First, 
1862—63. 


2o6  PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Train,  Arthur  Savage.  Haverhill,  First,  1837 — 59;  Framing- 
ham,  First,  1866 — 72. 

Train,  Charles.  Weston  and  Framingham,  1811 — 26',  Fram- 
ingham,  First,  1826 — 39. 

TrasKj  William  G.     Taunton,   1834 — ^7. 

Tripp,   S.   G.     Cummington,    1839 — 42;    Hinsdale,   1842 — 45. 

True,  Robert  Fowle.  Newton,  Second  (acting),  1901 ; 
Lowell,  Immanuel,   1901 — 

Trumbull,  Hosea.  Cummington  and  Plainfield  (extinct), 
1824 — 26.     . 

Tuck,  Benjamin  F.  Bernardston,  1871 — 77;  Belchertown, 
1877—80;    Sutton,   First,    1888—91. 

Tuck,  Edward  Arthur.    Nantucket,  1896 — 97. 

Tuck,  Jacob.     Hanover,  1858 — 61 ;    West  Acton,  1861 — 63. 

Tucker,  C.  T.  North  Marshfield,  1849 — 54;  Millbury, 
1854—56. 

Tucker,   George   Everett.     Groton,    1854 — 57. 

Tucker,  James  Judson.  Worcester,  Pleasant  Street,  i860 — 62; 
Dedham,  Second,  1862 — 64;  Newton  Corner  (now  Im- 
manuel),   1865 — 69. 

Tucker,  Levi.  Boston,  Baldwin  Place  (now  Warren  Ave- 
nue), 1848 — 52. 

TuLLAR,  Clarence  Ell  Whitman,  1892 — 94;  Melrose  High- 
lands,  1896—98. 

TuLLER,  Edward  Pratt.    Lawrence,  Second,  1892 — 1901. 

Tunnell,  Spencer.     Mansfield,  1890 — 94. 

TuppER,   Miles   G.     Savoy    (acting),    1902 — 

TuRNBULL,  Robert.     Boston,   Harvard   Street,    1840 — 45. 

Turner,  Benjamin  Francis.     Middleboro,  First,  1886—87. 

Turner,  Charles  Benton.  Allston,  Brighton  Avenue, 
1890 — 99;    Holyoke,   Second,   1899 — 1900. 

Turner,  Charles  William.  Osterville,  1900 — 01 ;  Worcester, 
Quinsigamond,  1901 — 02;    West  Medway,  1902 — 

Turner,  John  Francis.     Everett,  Zion,  1895 — 96. 

Tyler,  Payson.    Barre,  1854 — 56. 

Ufford,  Edward  Smith.     Canton,   1882 — 83;    West  Dedham 

(now  Westwood),  1883—86;    Hingham,  1887—89;    Willi- 

mansett,  1893 — 1901. 
Underwood,    Urijah.      Spencer,    1841 — 42;     Sutton,    Second, 

1842 — 46;    Wilbraham  and   Monson    (extinct),    1846 — 47; 

Westfield,    Second    (extinct),    1847 — 49. 
Upham,    Albert    George.      Southbridge,    Central,    1877 — 83; 

Boston,   Stoughton  Street,   1898 — 1902;    Fall  River,  First, 

1902 — 
Upham,  James.     Millbury,  1843 — 45. 
Upham,  William  Peale.     South  Groton  (extinct),  1866 — 67; 

West  Townsend,  1867 — 72;    Framingham,  First,  1872 — 76. 
Upton.   James.     Reading.    1844 — 45. 
Usher,  I.  E.    Hingham,  1892 — 95. 


PASTOJ^S   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  20/ 

Valentine,  T.     New  Bedford,  Second  (extinct),  1867 — 68. 
Van    Allen,    C.    E.      Egremont,    1873 — 76;     New    Marlboro, 

1876 — 79;    Three  Rivers,  1895 — 96;    Russell  and  Fairfield, 

1896—98. 
Van  Loon,  Charles.    Westfield,  Central,  1839 — 42. 
Vary,  Willett.     North  Randolph,   1866—67. 
Vassar,  John  E.    Chelsea,  Carey  Avenue,  1899 — 
Vassar,  Thomas   E.     Lynn,   First,   1865 — 72. 
Ventres,  William  Hosmer  Shailer.     Hyde  Park,  1866 — 70; 

Hudson,  1871 — 78. 
Verry,  J.  R.    Somerset,  1893 — 97. 
Very,  Edward  D.     Watertown,  1845 — 46. 
ViETS,  Apollos   Phelps.     Hancock,   1853 — 65. 
ViLLERS,  Thomas  Jefferson.     Gloucester,   First,   1888 — 93. 
Vinal,  Henry  Y.     Carver,  1900 — 01. 
Vincent,  John.     Hancock,  1828 — 2>^. 
ViNiNG,    Ebenezer.      Chesterfield, — 1802. 
Vosburgh,  George  B.     Boston,  Stoughton  Street,  1893 — 97. 
VosE,  Riley  A,     Cambridge,   North  Avenue,   1896-^98. 

Wade,  Benjamin  Cliffofd.     Woburn,   First,   1829 — 34. 

Wade,  Daniel  Arnold.  Bellingham,  1881^-84;  Bellingham 
and  North  Bellingham,  1885 — 90;    Norwood,  1891 — 93. 

Wadsworth,  Arthur  Leonard.     Rockland,  1892 — 96. 

Wait,  Samuel.     Sharon,  1819. 

Waitt,   George   N.     Sharon,    1837 — 42;     Braintree,    184:^ — 47. 

Wakefield,  Leander  E.  Barnstable,  Second,  1849 — 50;  Oster- 
ville,   1850 — 52;    Feltonville    (now  Hudson),  1852 — 64. 

Wakefield,  Tubal.  Belchertown  and  Palmer,  1830 — 31 ; 
Belchertown,  1832 — 3.1;  Wales,  1834 — 27 '>  Northboro, 
1846 — 47;  Barnstable,  Second,  1847 — 49;  Orleans  (ex- 
tinct), 1850 — 51. 

Wakeman,  Levi  H.  Three  Rivers,  1853 — 55 ;  East  Long- 
meadow,   1862 — 67. 

Wakeman,  William  Walter.  South  Medford,  1897 — 1900; 
Reading,  1900 — 

Waldren,  L.  G.  Boston,  Twelfth,  1881—86;  Woburn,  St. 
John,  1890 — 94. 

Walker,  Ahoniram  Judson.  Erving  and  Warwick,  1880 — 83 ; 
Savoy,   1 884^-87. 

Walker,  George.     Holden,  1836 — 37. 

V/alker,  John.  Holden,  1817 — 32;  Sutton,  First,  1832 — 35; 
Barre,  1837 — 44;  Bolton  and  Princeton  (extinct),  1846 — 47; 
Spencer,  1848 — 49. 

Walker,  Levl     West  Harwich,  1819. 

Walker,  Orrin  T.  Orleans  ("extinct),  1846 — 47;  North  Tis- 
bury,  1847 — 50;  Boston,  Bowdoin  Square,  1863 — 68;  Bos- 
ton, Harvard  Street,  1876—83 ;   Reading,  1888—90. 


208  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Walker,    Sandy.      Lynn,    Union,    1882 — 83;     Boston,    Day 

Star  (extinct),  1883—84. 
Walker,    William     Henry.     Westboro,    1855 — 58;     Natick, 

1858—60;      Gardner,     i860 — 65;      Edgartown,     1880 — 84; 

North  Leverett,  1885—87. 
Walker,  William  S.    Pondville,  1875 — 78;   Barnstable,  Third, 

1878—82 ;    Norton,  1882—83 ;  West  Bridgewater,  1883-85 ; 

Bernardston,   1885—88. 
Wallace,     Oates     Charles     Symonds.       Lawrence,     First, 

1885—90. 
Wallace,  Orvin  H.    Peabody,  1892 — 97 ;   Dighton,  1898 — 1902. 
Wallen,  Joseph  Kinsbury.     Pocasset,  1858—59. 
Walther,  Joseph.    Holden,  1895 — 1902. 
Walton,  T.    Orleans  (extinct),  1857—58. 
Waltze,  O.  F.     South  Yarmouth,   1888—89. 
Ward,   Ephraim.     Raynham,    1844 — 47. 
Warne,  Joseph  A.  South  Reading  (now  Wakefield),  1830 — 31 ; 

Brookline,  1832 — 2>7- 
Warner,  William  Rogers.     Belchertown,  1872 — y:^. 
Warren,  George  F.     West  Harwich,  1856 — 58;    North  Attle- 

boro,     1858 — 60;     Lowell,     Worthen     Street,     i860 — 67; 

Maiden,  First,  1867 — 68;    Boston,  Bowdoin  Square,  1869; 

East  Boston,   Central   Square,   1869 — 71 ;    Lowell,   13ranch 

Street,  1871 — 75;    East  Boston,  Central  Square,  1875 — 78; 

East  Boston,  Trinity,  1878 — 81. 
Warren,  Harry  M.     Salem,  Central,  1894—96. 
Warren,  Jonah  Goulding.     Springfield,  Third  (now  Chicopec 

Central),  1838 — ^49. 
Wassall,      Joseph.        Brewster,      1865 — 66;       Newburyport, 

1866—68. 
Waterbury,  Willard  E.     Springfield,  Carew  Street,  1887 — 91 ; 

Clinton,  1892 — 96;  Springfield,  Belmont  Avenue,  1896 — 99; 

Springfield,   Park  Avenue,    1899 — 
Waterman,  Thomas.     Charlestown,  First,  — 1802. 
Waters,     George.      Holden,    1834 — 38;      Sterling,    1838 — 41; 

Amherst,  1842 — 46. 
Waters,  Samuel.     Sutton,  First,  1819 — 25. 
Watrous,    E.    Hayden.      Three    Rivers,    1858—62 ;     Shirley, 

1872 — 74;    Warwick,  1877 — 79;    North  Tisbury,  1879 — 83. 
Watson,   Charles   H.     Arlington,    1881 — 
Watson,  D.  S.     Pittsfield,  First,  1868—71. 
Watson,   Woodman   Harrison.     Holden,    1844 — 47;    Natick, 

1849 — 53;    West  Acton,  1853 — 60;    Leominster  and  Gard- 
ner,   1861 — 64;     Leominster,    1864 — 65;     South    Hanson, 

1865 — 67;    Southboro,  1867 — 69. 
Wayland,  Francis,  Jr.     Boston,  First,  1821 — 26. 
Wayland,   Heman   Lincoln.     Worcester,   Third    (afterward 

Main  Street,  extinct),  1854 — 61. 
Wayland,  John.     Salem,  First,  1834 — 42. 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  209 

Webb,  F.  E.     Somerset  (acting),  1900 — 01. 

Webb,  Robert  Lee.     Needham,  1893 — 

Webber,  Edmund  David.    Wollaston,  1902 — 

Webster,  Amos.     Newton,   Second,   1849 — 54. 

Webster,   Wallace.     Boston,    Ebenezer,    1878 — 80. 

Wedge,  Arthur  P.     Springfield,  Carew  Street,  1900 — 

Weeks,    Albert    Walter.       Palmer,     1885 — 92;     Worcester, 

Dewey  Street,  1893 — 95. 
Weeks,  Edwin  C.     Three  Rivers,  1893 — 95 ;    Cliftondale  and 

Franklin   Park,   1895 — QS- 
Weeks,     William     Marston.       Charlestown,     Bunker  Hill, 

1882—83;      Middleboro,     Third,     1883—84;      Cambridge, 

Second,   1884—87. 
Wells,  J.  H.    Stamford,  Vt.,  1843—45. 
Wells,  Job  H.     Marshfield,   First,   1879 — 81 ;     East  Dedham, 

1881 — 88;    Baldwinsville.   1889 — 90;    Northboro,   1891 — 92. 
Welsh,    John    C.      Warren,    1823 — 25;     Seekonk    (extinct), 

1841—50. 
Weston,  David.    Worcester,  Pleasant  Street,  1862 — 70;  Salem, 

Central,  1872 — 72,. 
Weston,    Frank    S.     Conway,    1885 — 89;     West    Springfield, 

First     (now    Agawam),     1889 — 92;     Worcester,    Lincoln 

Square,  1892 — 96;    Natick,  1896— 
Weston,  John  Equality.     Cambridge,  Second,   1827 — 31. 
Wheeler,  Benjamin.     North  Randolph,  1852 — 59;    Haverhill, 

Third,  1859 — 64;  Randolph,  1872 — y^;  Brookville,  1873 — 76. 
Wheeler,    Charles    Horace.      North    Attleboro,     1886 — 92; 

Winchester,   1892 — 94. 
Wheeler,   Edwin    S.     South   Framingham,    1884 — 90;     South 

Boston,    Fourth    Street    (extinct),    1890 — 95;    Dorchester, 

Blaney  Memorial,   1895 — 98. 
Wheeler,     Guy     F.      Worcester,     First     (assistant    pastor), 

1895 — 97;    Worcester,  Greendale,  1897 — 1901. 
Wheeler,  L.  Williams.     West  Otis,  1858 — 59;    Huntington, 

1859--61 ;     West    Royalston,    1869 — 71 ;     Sunderland    and 

Montague    (extinct),    1871 — 72. 
Wheelock,    Isaac    Robinson.      Worcester,    Pleasant    Street, 

1872 — 75;    Fitchburg,   First,   1875 — 85. 
Whipple,    A.    B.    Adams,  1871 — 72;    Nantucket,  First,  1876— 

78;    Cummington,  1880 — 82;    Hancock  and  Williamstown, 

1883—92. 
Whipple,  James  M.    Russell  and  Blandford  (extinct),  1843 — 

45;  Chesterfield  (extinct)  and  Blandford,  1845 — 46;  Wind- 
sor,  1846 — 47;    Hinsdale,    1846 — 49;    Savoy,   Second,  and 

Hinsdale,  1849 — 51. 
Whipple,  R.  P.     Savoy,  First,  1835 — 38;    Hinsdale,  1838 — 39. 
Whitaker,  William  Carey.     Conway,  1892 — 96. 
Whitcomb,   Charles   F.     Canton,    1889 — 90. 
White,   Charles  Lincoln.    North  Oxford  (acting),  1888. 


2IO  PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

White,    Frederick    McKee.      Hingham    (acting),    1895 — 97; 

Amherst,  1897 — 1901 ;    Hingham,  1901 — 
White,    H.    H.      Boston,    Independent     (now    St.     Paul's), 

1864 — 67. 
White,  Herbert  Judson.    Boston,  Bethany,  1895 — 99;  Beverly, 

First,  1899 — 
White,  Horace  Jerome.   Worcester,  Pleasant  Street,  1888 — 95 ; 

Southbridge,  1896 — 
White,    John    S.      West    Wrentham     (extinct),    1834 — 2i7 'y 

Kingston,   1838 — 42. 
White,  Obed  Jacob.     Taunton,  1894 — 
Whitehouse,  George  Ellsworth.     Cheshire  and  Lanesboro, 

1897 — 98;  Cheshire,  1898 — 1900;  Braintree,  1900— 
Whitemore,  Elias  John.  North  Reading,  1881 — 82. 
Whitman,   Benaiah   Longley.     Newton,   Second,    1887 — 88; 

North  Grafton,  1888—90. 
Whitman,    Freeman    Tupper.      Newton,    Second,    1879 — 82; 

Allston,  Brighton  Avenue,  1883 — 90;  .South  Framingham, 

1896 — 1901. 
Whitney,   Frank  Curtis.     Groton,   1884 — 89. 
Whitney,   S.   W.     Sterling,    1888—89 ;    Raynham,    1889 — 91 ; 

Ashfield,    1892 — 96. 
Whitney,  William  Bradley.     Boston,  Bethany,  1900 — 
Whittemore,  George  F.     Shutesbury,   1895 — 96. 
Whittemore,    Joshua    L.      Dighton,     1837 — 40;      Brewster, 

1842 — ^43;     Middleboro,    Third,    1843 — ^48;     Long    Plain, 

1848—56. 
Whittier,  Edward  Asa.     Lowell,  Branch  Street,  1868 — 70. 
Wiggin,  James  E.     Chelmsford,  First,  1858—63. 
Wightman,  Jesse.     West  Springfield,  First  (now  Agawam), 

181 1— 17. 
Wightman,    Joseph    Colver.      Cambridge,    North    Avenue, 

1866—68;    Taunton,    1873—82. 
Wilbur,  Henry  Ripley.    Andover,  1872 — 76. 
Wilcox,     James      Franklin.       Salisbury     and     Amesbury, 

1836 — 42;   Taunton,  1842 — 48. 
Wilcox,  Monson  Alva.     Holyoke,  First,  1892 — 1902. 
Wild,  Zenas  P.     Unionville   (now  Ashland),  1846;    Marble- 
head,    1846 — 48;    Rowley,    1848 — 51;     Billerica,    1851 — 53; 

Southwick,    1853 — 54;    West  Royalston,    1854 — 55. 
Wilder,  John.     Becket,   1831-^32;    Sandisfield,   1833 — 38. 
Wiley,   Elijah   F.     North  Adams,  1816. 
WiLiE,  J.  H.    Maiden,  Centre  Street,  1902 — 
WiLKiNS,  Frank  L.    Gloucester,  First,  1898 — 
Willard,     Benjamin.       Russell,     1825 — 26;      Northampton, 

1826 — 30;       Northampton      and      Middlefield,      1830 — 31; 

Northampton,   1832 — 2i7- 
Willard,  Charles  M.    Harvard,  1850 — 57 ;  Littleton,  1861 — 67. 
Willard,  Frederick  Augustus.     Worcester,  First,   1832 — 35; 


PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES  211 

Newton    Centre,    1835—39;     Danvers,    1851—54;     South 

Abington  (now  Whitman),  1854—56;   Needham,  1856 — 66. 

WiLLARD,    George    A.      Cummington,     1844—47;      Ashfield, 

1874—80. 
WiLLDRiDGE,  H.  A.     Chicopec,  Central,  1871 — ^2. 
WiLLET,  Charles.     Southwick,  1840 — 46. 
Williams,  A.   C.     Cambridge,  Broadway,   1879 — 82. 
Williams,   Calvik   Caleb.     Plymouth,  1861—62. 
Williams,    Charles    Burditt.      Sutton,    First,    1897 — 1900; 

Cambridge,  Inman  Square,   1901 — 
Williams,    Charles    F.     Waltham,    First,    1893—95;     Cam- 
bridge, North  Avenue,  1900 — 1902. 
Williams,  Charles  H.     Medfield,  1902 — _ 
Williams,  Charles  Walter.    Quincy  Point  (extinct),  1884 — 
87 ;   West  Townsend,  1887 — 91 ;    South  Hanson,  1891 — 97 ; 
Barnstable,    Third,    and    Hyannis,    1898—99;     Barnstable, 
Third,  1899 — 1901 ;   Chelmsford,  First,  1901 — 
Williams,  Elisha  Scott.    Beverly,  First,  1803 — 12. 
Williams,  Elmer  E.     Middleboro,   Central,   1899 — 
Williams,  George  A.    Merrimac,  1899 — 1900. 
Williams,   George  B.     Gloucester,   Sandy  Bay    (now  Rock- 
port),  1837—38;    Kingston,  1854—60;    Braintree,  1869 — 70. 
Williams,  G.  C.     East  Boston,  Trinity,  1890—91. 
Williams,  George  Washington.     Boston,  Twelfth,  1874 — 75. 
Williams,    Lester.      Russell,     1851—53;     West    Townsend, 

1853—55. 
.Williams,  Lester,  Jr.     Holden,  1859 — 65. 
Williams,  Nathaniel  Marshman.     Charlestown  and  Som- 

erville,  1852;    Somerville,  Perkins  Street,  1853—59;    South 

Danvers,   1865—67;    JNIethuen,   1868—70;    Andover,   1879; 

Marshfield,    First.    1887—92. 
Williams,   Nathaniel   West.     Beverly,  First,    1816 — 24; 

1836 — 40;     Newbury  and   Newburyport,    1832 — 33;     New- 

buryport,   1834—37;    Maiden,   1841—43. 
Williams,  William.     Wrentham,  — 1802 — 23. 
Willmarth,  Isaac  IMason.     Winchendon,   1850 — 53;    Rowe, 

1867—70. 
Willmarth,  James   W.     South   Reading    (now   Wakefield), 

1867 — 69. 
Wilmarth,  Ezra.     Rowley,  1828 — 34. 
Wilson,  Cornelius  Judson.    Stamford,  Vt,  1875 — 78;  Charle- 

mont,  1879 — 81. 
Wilson,  E.  M.     Long  Plain,  1874—86. 
Wilson,     James     E.       South     Abington     (now     Whitman), 

1868—69;    North  Randolph   (extinct),  1869—72. 
Wilson,  John  Brainerd.    Dorchester,  First,  1892 — 1901. 
Wilson,  Jonathan.     Russell,    1832 — 33. 
Wilson,    Joseph    Kennard.      Taunton,    1883 — 94;     Melrose, 
First,  1894 — 99. 


212  PASTORS  OF  BAPTIST  CHURCHES 

Wilson,  Norman  Bayard.  Rehoboth,  1873 — 75 ;  Ashland, 
1875—78;    Baldwinville,    1881—84;    Rockport,   1885—86. 

Wilson,  William  Frederick.  Fall  River,  Third,  1897 — 98; 
North  Abington,   1898 — 

Winchell,  James   Manning.     Boston,   First,   1814 — 20. 

Wines,  William  H.     Boston,  Bowdoin  Square,   1853 — 57. 

Wing,  Otis.  Chatham,  1825 — 26 ;  Brewster,  1826 — 27 ;  Haver- 
hill, Second,  1830 — 34;  Gloucester,  First,  1834 — 2>^;  Bev- 
erly Farms,  1837;  West  Newbury,  1871 — 72;  Groveland 
(extinct),  1878. 

Winn,  Daniel  Damon.  Lowell,  Worthen  Street,  1853 — 55; 
Salem,  Central,  1855 — 67;  New  Bedford,  First,  1867 — 80; 
Woburn,    First,    1880 — 91. 

WiTHERELL,    George.      North    Adams,    1809 — 12. 

Womersley,  Thomas.  Wenham,  1856 — 62;  Three  Rivers, 
1862 — 66;    Deerfield    (extinct),   1866 — 71. 

Wood,  A.  E.     Edgartown,  1864 — 65. 

Wood,  Hervey.     New  Bedford,  North,  1885 — 86. 

Wood,  John  E.  North  Tewksbury,  1853 — 55;  North  Oxford, 
1855 — 57;  Edgartown,  1863—64;  Mashpee,  1865 — 68; 
Middleboro,   Third,    1868—71. 

Wood,  L.  L.  Lawrence,  Second,  1870 — 'J2)  \  Boston,  Harvard 
Street,  1873 — 74;  South  Boston,  Fourth  Street  (extinct "I, 
1874—79;    Peabody,  1880—82. 

Wood,  Nathan  E.  Brookline,  1892 — 94;  Boston,  First, 
1894 — 1900. 

Wood,  Nathan  Robinson.     West  Medford,  1901 — 

Wood,  Newal  A.     Chatham,   1891 — 92. 

Wood,  Whitman  Lillibridge.  Newton,  Second  (acting), 
1883—84. 

Woodbury,  David.     Savoy,  First,   1823 — 26. 

Woodbury,  H.  B.    Bernardston,  1869 — 70;    Warwick,  1870 — 71. 

Woodbury,  Isaac.  Haverhill,  First,  1839 — 41 ;  Reading,  Sec- 
ond, 1843;  Sturbridge  (Fiskdale),  1845 — 46;  Wenham, 
1853—55;    Mashpee,    1868—69. 

Woodbury,  John.  Northboro,  1829 — 31 ;  Templeton  (now 
Baldwinsville),  1844 — 47. 

Woodbury,  Samuel.  Orleans,  1864 — 66;  Shutesbury,  1888; 
Tyringham,   1890. 

Woodland,  J.  B.     Franklin,  1895 — 98. 

Woodruff,  A.  N.     Wales,  1881—83;    Shutesbury,  1883—85. 

Woodruff,  L.  M.     Gloucester,  First,  1861 — 64. 

Woods,  Henry.     New  Bedford,  North,  1883 — 85. 

Woodsum,  Ansley  Ezra.  Milford,  1879 — 82;  Rockland, 
1882--87;  Chelsea,  Carey  Avenue,  1890 — 92;  Lexington, 
1892—95. 

WooDSUM,  Jonas  H.     Hyannis  and  South  Yarmouth,   1901^ 

Worden,  Peter.     Cheshire,  First,  — 1802 — 07. 

Worral,  T.  D.     Lowell,  Worthen  Street,  1856—57. 


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PASTORS   OF  BAPTIST   CHURCHES  21  3 

WoRTHiNGTON,  Watson  A.  Hinsdalc,  1858 — 59;  New  Salem 
and  Prescott  (extinct),  1859 — 61;  Woodville,  1869 — 71; 
Westminster,  1871 — 75;  Chelmsford,  First,  1876 — 79; 
Bernardston,  1881 — 83. 

Wren,  G.  L.     Cambridge,  Second,  1887 — 88. 

Wright,  David.  Westfield,  Second  (extinct),  1820 — 26; 
Cummington  and  Plainfield,  1828;  Cummington,  1830 — 36; 
Westfield,  Central,  1836 — 38;  Gay  Head,  1839 — 40;  Con- 
way, 1840. 

Wright,  Stephen.     Williamstown,   1837 — 38;    Three  Rivers, 

1874—75- 
Wright,  Thomas  Goddard.     Sandisfield,  1852 — 53. 
Wright,  W.  C.    Weymouth,  1874—77. 
Wrinkle,  T.     Bernardston,    1866-— 68. 
Wyman,  Drew  Thompson.    Spencer,  1879 — 81 ;   West  Somer- 

ville,  1882 — 91 ;    North  Brockton,  1895 — 1901  (with  Brook- 

ville,  1895—98). 
Wyman,   Edwin  Allen.     Turner's  Falls,   1872 — 75. 
Wyman,    John    Monroe.      Roslindale,    1884—89;     Marlboro, 

1900 — 
Wyman,  Windsor  Herbert.     Winchendon,   1886 — 90;    North 

Abington,  1890 — 95. 
Wyndown,  Samuel.     Woburn,  First,  1809. 

Young,  Joshua.     Beverly,  First,  — 1802. 

Young,  William  McIntosh.    Woburn,  First,  1872 — 74. 

York,  Daniel  C.     Barnstable,  Third,  1901 — 

Zell,  William  F.    Hancock,  1899 — 1901, 


I 


Appendix  A 

CHARTER 

The  Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society  formed 
in  Boston,  May  26,  1802,  in  the  meeting-house  of  the  First 
Baotist  Church -and  the  oldest  Missionary  Society  of  the 
denomination -was  incorporated  by  act  of  the  Legislature, 
Feb    28,  1808,  as  follows: 

Section   i.     Be  it  enacted   by   the  Senate  and  House   of 
Representatives  in  General  Court  assembled  and  by  authority 
0    the  same,  That  Thomas  Baldwin,  Doctor  in  Divinity,  the 
Rev    Joseph  Clay,  Deacon  John  Waitt,  of  Boston;    the  Rev^ 
William  Collier,  Deacon  David  Goodwm  and  Deacon  John 
Car    r    of  Charlestown;    the  Rev.  Joseph  Gra  ton  and     ohn 
Kendrlck,  Esq.,  of  Newton;  the  Rev.  Lucius  Bolles^of  Sdem 
the  Rev.  William  Williams,  of  Wrentham;    the  R^^  /hsha 
Williams,    of    Beverly;     the    Rev.    William    Batchelder,    o 
Haverhil  ;    the  Rev.  Valentine  W.  Rathbun,  of  Bndgewater 
fnd  the  Rev.  John  Peak,  of  Newburyport;   together  with  such 
others  as  may  hereafter  associate  with  them,  and  their  sue 
c  sso  s,   be   and   they   are  hereby  made   a  body  politic   and 
corporate,  by  the  name  of  the  Baptist  M-ionary  Society  in 
Massachusetts,  and  by  that  name  may  stie  ^^^  bej"^^   f 
law,  in  any  action,  real,  personal,  or  mixed;    and  may  prose 
cute  and  defend  such  actions  to  final  judgment  and  execution, 
and  may  do  and  suffer  all  other  things  which  corporations 
of  aTimilar  nature  may  or  ought  to  do  and  suffer;    and  the 
said   Society  shall  have  continuance  and  succession  for  the 
em  of  fifteen  years  from  the  passing  of  this  act;    but  the 
Legislature   of   this   Commonwealth  may  at   any   time   alter 
amend  or  repeal  the  same,  if  they  shall  see  cause  therefor. 


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2l6  APPENDIX  A 

reserving,  however,  to  the  said  corporation  the  property 
thereto  belonging;  and  nothing  contained  in  this  act  shall 
be  construed  to  change  or  divert  the  use  and  expenditure 
of  the  funds  or  other  property  from  the  purpose  for  which 
they  are  or  may  be  raised;  and  the  Legislature  of  this 
Commonwealth  shall  always  have  a  right  to  examine  into  the 
doings,  funds  and  expenditures  of  the  said  corporation,  and 
for  that  purpose  shall  have  access  to  all  their  books  and  papers. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  corporation  shall 
have  power  to  receive  and  hold  real  estate  of  any  kind,  in 
fee  simple,  or  other  less  estate  not  exceeding  fifteen  thousand 
dollars,  and  of  receiving  and  holding  personal  estate  by 
donation,  bequest,  legacy,  or  otherwise,  not  exceeding  ten 
thousand  dollars,  the  annual  income  of  all  which  real  and 
personal  estate  shall  be  applied  to  the  sole  use  and  purpose 
of  diffusing  Christian  knowledge,  in  such  manner  as  the 
said  corporation  shall  judge  will  best  promote  and  answer 
the  design  of  their  incorporation :  Provided,  however,  that 
each  and  every  of  the  missionaries,  or  other  instructors,  or 
teachers  employed  by  the  said  corporation  shall  be  of  the 
Protestant  religion,  of  competent  learning,  of  reputed  piety  and 
prudence,   and    of   exemplary   morals. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  corporation 
may  annually  elect  by  ballot,  by  a  majority  of  the  members 
present,  at  a  meeting  regularly  notified  and  held  in  the  manner 
as  directed  in  the  sixth  section  of  this  act,  a  President,  Vice- 
President,  Secretary,  Treasurer,  and  such  number  of  Trustees 
as  they  may  think  proper  (not  less  than  seven),  and  such  other 
officers  as  may  by  them  be  considered  necessary;  and  all  such 
officers  when  chosen  may  hold  their  offices  until  others  are 
chosen  in  their  stead;  and  in  case  of  death,  resignation,  or 
disability  of  either  of  the  said  officers,  the  said  corporation 
shall  have  a  right  in  like  manner,  at  any  meeting  held  by 
adjournment,  as  may  be  most  convenient  to  fill  any  vacancy 
which  may  so  happen :  Provided,  however,  the  present  offi- 
cers of  the  said  Society  may  continue  to  hold  their  places 
until  the  next  annual  meeting,  or  unless  others  are  chosen  in 
their  stead,  conformably  to  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  4.    Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  corporation  be. 


APPENDIX  A 


217 


and  hereby  is  authorized,  at  their  first  meeting  to  be  holden 
under  this  act,  by  vote  of  the  majority  of  the  members  present, 
to  make  and  estabhsh  such  by-laws,  rules  and  orders  as  they 
may  think  necessary  for  the  prudent  and  regular  management 
of  their  afifairs,  subject,  however,  to  revisions,  additions  or 
alterations  from  time  to  time  at  any  regular  meeting,  and 
may  also  annex  reasonable  penalties  for  the  breach  of  either 
said  by-laws,  rules  or  orders:  Provided  the  same  are  not 
in  any  case  repugnant  to  the  Constitution  or  laws  of  this 
Commonwealth. 

And  in  order  that  the  members  of  the  said  Society,  and  all 
the  contributors  to  the  said  design,  may  know  the  state  of 
the  funds  and  of  all  the  donations  made  to  the  same  and  the 
disposal  thereof: 

Sec.  s.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  particular  accounts  of 
such  funds,  and  the  expenditures  thereof,  shall  be  exhibited 
by  the  Treasurer  or  in  case  of  his  absence,  by  the  Secretary, 
at  the  annual  stated  meetings  of  said  Society,  and  a  committee 
of  said  Society  having  first  examined  and  certified  the  same 
to  be  true;  and  fair  entries  shall  be  made  in  books  to  be 
provided  for  that  purpose,  of  all  donations  made  to  the 
Society  and  of  all  the  estate,  real  or  personal,  belonging  to 
the  same;  and  the  said  books  shall  be  brought  to  the  general, 
stated  and  annual  meetings,  and  be  there  open  for  the  exam- 
ination of  the  members. 

Sec.  6.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  Thomas  Baldwin, 
Doctor  in  Divinity,  be,  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to  ap- 
point the  first  meeting  of  said  Society,  and  to  publish  a 
notification  of  the  time  and  place  in  two  of  the  newspapers 
printed   in   Boston,  at  least  fifteen   days  before  the  meeting. 

In  February,  1822,  the  Legislature  passed  the  following 
Act,  renewing  and  enlarging  the  charter  of  the  Society. 

Section  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of 
Representatives  in  General  Court  assembled,  and  by  author- 
ity of  the  same,  That  so  much  of  the  first  section  of  the 
act  entitled,  "An  Act  to  incorporate  the  members  of  a  So- 
ciety by  the  name  of  the  Baptist  Missionary  Society  in  Mas- 
sachusetts," as  limits  the  continuance  of  the  said  Society  to 
fifteen  years,  be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed. 


21  8  APPENDIX  A 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  so  much  of  the  second 
section  of  said  act  as  authorizes  and  limits  the  Society  to 
receive  and  hold  real  estate  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  fifteen 
thousand  dollars,  and  personal  estate  by  donation,  bequest, 
legacy  or  otherwise,  not  exceeding  ten  thousand,  be  so  far 
altered  and  amended  as  to  allow  said  corporation  to  receive 
and  hold  real  and  personal  estate  to  the  amount  of  fifty 
thousand  dollars,  the  annual  income  of  which  shall  be  applied 
agreeably  to  the  provisions  of  said  act,  and  not  otherwise : 
Provided  that  the  Legislature  shall  have  a  right  to  repeal  this 
act  whenever  they  shall  deem  it  expedient. 

In  183s,  the  Legislature  passed  an  act  altering  the  name  of 
the  Society  as  follows : 

Section  i.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of 
Representatives  in  General  Court  assembled,  and  by  authority 
of  the  same,  That  from  and  after  the  passing  of  this  act  the 
Baptist  Missionary  Society  in  Massachusetts  shall  be  known 
and  called  by  the  name  of  the  Massachusetts  Baptist 
Convention,  and  that  it  retains  under  said  new  name,  all 
its  existing  powers,  privileges,  rights  and  property,  and  re- 
mains subject  to  all  its  present  duties,  obligations  and  lia- 
bilities. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  so  much  of  the  Act  of 
Incorporation  of  said  Society  as  relates  to  the  number,  duties, 
and  time  and  place  of  choosing  the  officers  of  said  corporation, 
be,  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed. 

In  February,  1870,  the  Legislature  passed  an  additional  Act, 
authorizing  the  Convention  to  hold  more  property,  as  follows : 

Section  i.  Be  it  enacted,  etc.  The  Massachusetts  Baptist 
Convention  is  hereby  authorized  to  hold  real  estate  to  the 
amount  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  all  income 
arising  from  such  real  estate  shall  be  applied  exclusively  to 
the  purpose  of  said  corporation. 

Sec.    2.    This  act  shall  take  efTect  upon  its  passage. 

In  1879,  the  Legislature  passed  the  following  Act  respecting 
the  officers  of  the  Convention: 

Section  i.  Be  it  enacted,  etc.  So  much  of  chapter  sixty- 
one  of  the  acts  of  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
eight,   entitled,    "  An   act   to   incorporate   the   members   of   a 


APPENDIX  A  219 

Society  by  the  name  of  the   Baptist   Missionary   Society   in 
Massachusetts,"    as    restricts    said    Society,    now    known    as 
the  "  Massachusetts  Baptist  Convention,"  as  to  the  names  and 
manner  of  electing  its  ofificers,  is  hereby  repealed. 
Sec.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 

THE  LEGISLATURE  OF  1886  PASSED  THE  FOLLOW- 
ING ADDITIONAL  ACT. 

Be  it  enacted  as  follows: 

Section  i.  The  Massachusetts  Baptist  Convention  is 
hereby  authorized  to  hold  real  and  personal  estate  to  the 
amount  of  five  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  all  income 
arising  therefrom  shall  be  applied  exclusively  to  the  purposes 
of  said  corporation. 

Sec.  2.    This  act  shall  take  effect  upon  its  passage. 
Approved  March  5,  1885. 


Appendix   B 

CONSTITUTION 

Of  the  Baptist  Convention  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts. 
(Adopted  November  lo,  1824.) 

PREAMBLE. 

The  great  object  of  this  Convention  being  to  promote  the 
cause  of  Christ,  by  means  of  affording  greater  facilities  for 
concert  and  cooperation  among  the  Baptist  Churches  in 
Massachusetts,  and  other  Churches  associated  with  them,  it 
m.ay  be  proper  to  state  that  we  utterly  disclaim  all  power  and 
all  intention  to  interfere  in  any  respect  with  the  internal 
concerns  of  any  Church  or  Association,  or  in  any  question 
which  may  arise  between  different  Churches  or  Associations : 
And  it  is  to  be  understood  that  no  recommendation  of  this 
Convention,  which  shall  in  any  manner  infringe  this  funda- 
mental principle,  shall  be  in  the  smallest  degree  obligatory. 
This  Convention  being  a  Voluntary  compact,  any  Association 
has  liberty  to  withdraw  from  it  at  pleasure  without  assigning 

its  reasons. 

Article   I.    Name. 

This  Convention  shall  be  known  by  the  name  of  the  Baptist 
Convention  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts. 

Article  II.    Members. 

1.  This  Convention  shall  be  composed  of  Delegates  chosen 
by  the  several  Associations  in  Massachusetts,  in  such  manner 
as  each  Association  shall  prescribe. 

2.  The  number  of  Delegates  which  each  Association  may 

221 


222  APPENDIX  B 

send  to  the  Convention  shall  be  in  proportion  of  one  Delegate 
to  every  five  Churches. 

3.  Every  delegate,  before  taking  his  seat,  shall  produce  to 
the  Recording  Secretary  a  copy  of  the  Minutes  of  the  Asso- 
ciation containing  his  appointment,  or  a  certificate  of  his 
election  signed  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Association. 

Article    III.     OMcers  and  their  Duties. 

1.  The  officers  of  this  Convention  shall  be  a  President, 
Vice-President,  Corresponding  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary, 
and  Treasurer,  together  with  such  others  as  the  future  business 
shall  render  necessary,  who  shall  be  chosen  annually  by  ballot. 

2.  The  President  shall  preside  in  all  meetings  of  the  Con- 
vention ;  nominate  all  committees ;  and  have  power  to  call 
special  meetings  upon  the  request  of  ten  members. 

3.  The  Vice-President  shall,  in  the  absence  of  the  President, 
have  power  to  discharge  all  his  duties. 

4.  The  Corresponding  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  corre- 
spondence under  the  direction  of  the  Convention. 

5.  The  Recording  Secretary  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  the 
doings  of  the  Convention  in  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose ; 
have  the  custody  of  all  papers  belonging  to  the  Convention ; 
notify  all  meetings;  and  superintend  the  printing  and  distri- 
bution of  the  Minutes. 

6.  The  Treasurer  shall  be  a  member  in  full  standing  in 
some  Baptist  Church  belonging  to  an  Association  united  with 
this  Convention.  He  shall  keep  in  trust  all  moneys  belonging 
to  the  Convention,  and  shall  pay  none  of  them  out  but  upon 
an  order  signed  by  persons  hereinafter  to  be  named ;  and 
shall,  when  required,  give  bonds  in  the  amount  of  one 
thousand  dollars  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duty.  He 
shall  also  make  a  report  of  the  state  of  the  funds  to  the 
Convention,  at  each  Annual  Meeting. 

Article  IV.    Annual  Meeting. 

There  shall  be  an  Annual  Meeting  of  this  Convention  on  the 
last  Wednesday  of  October,  at  10  o'clock,  a.  m.,  at  such  place 
as   shall   be   appointed   at   a   preceding  meeting;    and    during 


APPENDIX  B  223 

each  session  there  shall  be  a  Sermon  preached  by  a  person 
previously  appointed  for  that  purpose. 

Article  V.    Statistics. 

1.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Delegates  from  each  Asso- 
ciation to  present  to  the  Convention  a  full  and  correct  List 
of  the  Churches  belonging  to  the  Association  which  they  repre- 
sent. —  This  List  shall  specify  the  number  of  Churches  and 
Members  at  present;  the  number  added,  dismissed,  excluded, 
and  deceased,  since  the  last  meeting;  the  number  of  ordained 
jNlinisters  and  Licentiates;  and  the  number  of  destitute 
Churches  belonging  to  the  Association  —  together  with  such 
other  information  as  the  Convention  may  from  time  to  time 
require. 

2.  The  whole,  or-  such  part  as  the  Convention  shall  direct, 
of  the  information  thus  communicated,  shall  be  printed  in  the 
Minutes  of  its  annual  proceedings,  and  a  copy  sent  to  every 
Baptist  Church  in  the  State,  and  such  others  as  are  connected 
with  the  Convention. 

3.  The  expense  of  printing  the  Minutes  shall  be  taken 
from  the  Treasury,  upon  an  order  signed  by  the  President. 

4.  During  each  session  there  shall  be  a  free  public  Con- 
ference in  which  the  Delegates  from  each  Association  shall 
give  an  account  of  the  state  of  religion  in  the  Association  to 
which  they  belong,  together  with  any  other  information  they 
may  possess  relating  to  the  prosperity  of  the  Church  of  Christ. 

Article  VL     Religious  Charities. 

1.  The  Religious  Charities,  patronized  by  this  Convention, 
shall  consist  of  Missionary,  Education,  and  such  other  Reli- 
gious Charities  as  the  Convention  may  in  future  approve. 

2.  Every  Church  or  Society,  desirous  to  contribute  towards 
the  extension  of  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ,  by  means  of  this 
Convention,  may  forward  its  funds  directly  to  the  Treasurer, 
or  to  the  Treasurer  of  its  own  Association,  stating  what 
proportion  is  to  be  devoted  to  each  particular  object. 

3.  The  Treasurer  of  each  Association  and  Society  will, 
at   such  times  as  the  Convention   may  direct,   forward  these 


224  APPENDIX  B 

several  contributions  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Convention, 
specifying  the  sums  received  from  each  Church  or  Society,  and 
the  objects  to  which  they  are  to  be  appropriated. 

4.  The  Treasurer  shall  keep  the  accounts  of  each  Charity 
in  a  separate  and  distinct  book;  and  all  his  books  shall  at  all 
times  be  open  to  the  inspection  of  any  member  of  any  Church 
connected  with  the  Convention. 

5.  For  conducting  the  business  of  these  several  Charities, 
the  Convention  shall  have  power  to  appoint  distinct  Boards  of 
Directors,  or  to  make  such  arrangements  with  the  Boards  al- 
ready existing,  as  may  best  subserve  the  designs  of  the  con- 
tributors. 

6.  No  moneys  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  Treasury  for  any  of 
these  objects  of  Charity,  unless  by  a  vote  of  the  Board  to 
whose  direction  such  object  shall  have  been  committed  by  the 
Convention,  and  signed  by  the  Chairman  of  that  Board. 

7.  A  report  of  the  doings  in  full  of  each  Board,  the  persons 
employed,  and  the  persons  assisted,  shall  be  presented  to  the 
Convention  at  each  Annual  Meeting. 

Article    VII.     Miscellaneous  Business. 

1.  It  shall  be  in  the  power  of  this  Convention  to  correspond 
by  letter,  or  Delegates,  or  both,  with  similar  Conventions  in 
other  States,  and  with  other  religious  bodies. 

2.  It  shall  be  in  the  power  of  this  Convention  to  send  Dele- 
gates to  the  General  Convention  of  the  Baptist  denomination 
in  the  United  States,  or  to  a  General  Convention  formed,  or 
designed  to  be  formed,  from  State  Conventions,  and  to  in- 
struct them  to  enter  into  any  arrangements  to  promote  the 
interests  of  religion,  not  inconsistent  with  this  Constitution, 
nor  with  the  general  declaration  on  which  it  is  founded. 

3.  If  any  amendment,  addition,  or  alteration  to  this  Con- 
stitution be  proposed,  it  shall  first  be  presented  to  the  Con- 
vention, in  writing,  at  an  Annual  Meeting,  and  be  printed  in 
the  Minutes  for  that  year,  and  sent  to  every  Association  for 
consideration;  and  it  shall  not  be  adopted,  unless  approved 
by  two-thirds  of  the  Associations  composing  this  Convention. 


Appendix   C 

MISSIONARIES 


EMPLOYED    BY    THE   MASSACHUSETTS    BAPTIST 
MISSIONARY    SOCIETY,    1802-1835 

Abbott,  Squire.     Hason  Region,  N.  Y. 

Alford,  Oliver.     Undesignated. 

Allen,  Amos.     Eastport,  ]\Iaine,  and  elsewhere. 

Ambrose,  Samuel.    Vermont  and  Canada. 

Andrews,  Cyrus.     Holland  Purchase  and  New  Connecticut, 

vicinity  of  Lake  Erie. 
Andrews,  Elisha.     Clinton  County,  Upper  part  of  Worcester 

County,  Hinsdale  and  Chesterfield,  N.  H. 
Arnold,  Joseph.     Undesignated. 
Averill,  Asa.     Richland,  N.  Y. 

Balcom,  D.  a.     Undesignated. 

Ball,  Harvey.     Cape  Cod. 

Ball,  Reuben.     New  Hampshire. 

Barton,  William.     Vicinity  of  Taunton  River. 

Bassett,  Thomas.     Western  Massachusetts. 

Batchelder,  William.     Rhode  Island  and  New  Hampshire. 

Benedict,  David.     Undesignated. 

Benjamin,  Isaac.     The  New  Purchase. 

Bentley,  William.     Scituate,  Bristol,  R.  I.,  West  Cambridge, 
Billerica,  Lexington,  IMass. 

Blake,  Jonathan.     New  York. 

Bolles,  Augustus.    Salisbury,  Mass.,  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  Rhode 
Island,  Western  New  York,  Canada. 

Bolles,    Matthew.      New    Hampshire,    Peterboro    and    Dun- 
stable. 

Bond,  Phineas.     Cherryfield,  Maine. 

Boswell,  James  D.     Sandy  Bay  and  Gloucester. 

Boynton,  David.     St.  Lawrence  County,  New  York. 

Bradley,  Joshua.     New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Islands  adja- 
cent to  Newport,  Louisiana. 
225 


226  APPENDIX   C 

Brooks,  Charles.    Vermont. 

Brown,  Allen.     Bufifalo,  N.  Y.,  and  vicinity. 

Buck,  .     Washington  County,  Maine. 

Butler,  Ephraim.     Hanover. 
Butler,  John.     Hanover. 

Case,  Isaac.  New  Brunswick,  British  Provinces,  New  Eng- 
land, New  York,  East  of  Penobscot  River,  Cuba. 

Chadbourne,  John.     District  of  Maine. 

Chamberlain,    S.      New    Hampshire. 

Chapin,  Pelatiah.     Orleans  County,  Vermont,  Westward. 

Chase,  Amos.  Steuben,  Cattaraugus,  and  Allegany  Counties, 
New  York. 

Chase,  Ira.     Undesignated. 

Chase,  Peter.     Western  Vermont. 

Churchill,   Samuel.     Westward. 

Clark,  William.     New  Jersey. 

Coburn,  Jesse.  Western  part  of  Windsor,  Washington,  and 
Orange  Counties,  Vermont. 

Collier,  William.     Rhode  Island. 

Cook,  Gideon.    New  Hampshire. 

Conant,  Thomas.     Marshfield  and  vicinity. 

Coombs,  Simon.     Susquehanna,  New  Connecticut  Country. 

Cornell,  Joseph.     Western  Mission. 

Cornish,  E.     Plymouth  and  Barnstable. 

CovELL,  Leonard.     Undesignated. 

Crosby,  C.  C.  P.     Danvers  Factory  and  Reading. 

Crowell,  Simeon.     Cape  Cod. 

Cummings,  Abraham.     Islands  of  Passamaquoddy  Bay. 

Curtis,  David.  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.,  Gloucester,  Squam, 
Cape  Cod. 

Curtis, .    Gloucester,  Squam,  Cape  Cod. 

Cushman,  Robert  W.     Plymouth. 

Davenport,   E.     Westward,   Counties   of   Potter   and   Keene. 

Davis,  .     Louisiana,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Dean,  .     Townsend. 

Dimask,  David.     Undesignated. 
Drake,  Jacob.     Ohio  and  elsewhere. 
Dunbar,  Darius.     Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Ellis,  Ferdinand.     Undesignated. 

Elton,   James.     Kentucky. 

Evans,    George.     Western   States,   District   of   Gove,    Upper 

Canada. 
Everett,  Joshua.     Eastport  and  vicinity,  Maine. 

FairfielDj  .     Ohio. 


APPENDIX   C  227 

Gano,  Stephen.     State  of  Rhode  Island. 

Gates,  Abram.    Northern  New  Hampshire. 

Gibson,  John  B.    Rhode  Island  and  Cumberland,  Smithfield, 

Gloucester,  New  Hampshire. 
Glover,  Samuel.     Hingham. 
GoFF,  John.     Allegany  County,  New  York. 
Going,  Eliab.     Undesignated. 
Going,  Ezra.     Holland  Purchase. 

Going,  Jonathan.    Vicinity  of  Green  Mountains,  Vermont. 
GooDALE,  Solomon.    New  York. 
Grafton,  Benjamin  C.    Martha's  Vineyard. 

Hale,  Henry.    Chandler  River,  Maine. 

Halch, .    Ripley  and  towns  adjacent. 

Hall,  Henry  I.    Indiana. 

Hall,  William  W.    Blackstone  River,  R.  I. 

Handy,  Joy.     Undesignated. 

Harrington,  Moses.     Machias,  Maine. 

Hartwell,  Jesse.     On  and  near  Susquehanna  River. 

Hatch,  Jacob.  Cold  Stream,  Olammon  Plantations,  Penob- 
scot River. 

HoDSON,  .     Bangor  and  Hampden,  Maine, 

Holmes,  G.    Illinois. 

Hooper,  Noah.     Undesignated. 

Houghton,  Josiah.  Between  Androscoggin  and  Penobscot 
Rivers,   Maine. 

Houghton,  Josiah.     Maine. 

Hubbard,  William.     Martha's  Vineyard. 

HuBBELL,  LooMis.     Rock  Spring,  Illinois. 

Hudson,  Henry,  M.  D.    Ohio. 

Hunting,  Enoch.     Undesignated. 

Ide,  John.     Vermont,  Eaton  and  vicinity.  Lower  Canada. 
Irish,  David.     New  Connecticut,  Black  River  County,  Upper 
Canada. 

James,  David.     New  Brunswick. 

Johnson,  Wakeman  G.     Undesignated. 

JuDSON,  Adoniram.     Plymouth  and  vicinity.     Scituate. 

Kendall,  Henry.    Maine  —  Machias,  Hartwell  Neck,  Gardner, 

Little  River. 
Kendrick,  Clark.     Canada  and  Holland  Purchase. 
Kimball,  Isaac.     Claremont  and  Plainfield,  N.  H. 

Kinner.  .     Lead  Mines  on  Fever  River. 

Kipp,  John.    Eastern  Mission. 

Lamb,  Nehemiah.  Oneida  County,  New  York,  and  Ridge 
Road. 


228  APPENDIX   C 

Lathrop,  Paul.     Undesignated. 
Ledoit,  Biel.     Undesignated. 

LeFavor,   Amos.     Hingham,    Scituate,    Hanover,    Mass. 
Leland,  Aaron.     Concord  and  neighboring  towns  in  Middle- 
sex  County,   Mass. 
Lemen,  Moses.     Illinois. 

LiVERMORE,  Jason.     Interior  of   Maine  and  Rhode  Island. 
Low,  Robert.     Hallowell,  Maine. 

Marshall,  Thomas.     Petersham. 

Martin,  Edw.  W.    To  the  West. 

Mason,   Francis.     Undesignated. 

McCoy,  James.     Illinois  and  neighborhood  of  Fort  Wayne. 

Merriam,  Asaph.     Undesignated. 

Metcalf,  Whitman.  Holland  Purchase,  Sardinia,  and  vicinity. 

Mitchell,  Robert.     Maine. 

Miles, .     Coventry  and  Springfield,  Conn. 

Murphy,  James.    Undesignated. 

Nelson,  Ebenezer.     Nantucket. 

Nelson,  Samuel.     Chenango  County,  New  York. 

NiLES,  Asa.     Rhode  Island,  Springfield,  Coventry,  Dana,  and 

Peterboro,    N.    H.,    Black    River,    Connecticut    Reserve, 

Scituate,  Mass. 

Osgood,  Emory.     Country  of  St.  Lawrence,  Sackett's  Harbor. 
Otis,  Nathaniel.     Undesignated. 
OviATT,  .     Pennsylvania. 

Parsons,  James.    Carver. 

Parsons,  Stephen.    Upper  Canada,  Western  New  York. 

Paul,  Thomas.     Nantucket,  Hayti,  West  Indies. 

Peak,  John.     New  Hampshire,  Cape  Cod. 

Pease,  David.     Undesignated. 

Pettet,  Hezekiah.     Susquehanna  and  Channing  Rivers. 

Peck,  John  M.     St.  Louis  and  St.  Charles,  Mo.,  Illinois. 

Peck,  Solomon.     New  Hampshire. 

Perkins,  Barnabas.     Coos   County,   N.   H.,   Lower  Canada, 

Orleans    County,   Vermont. 
Pillsbury,  Phineas.    Westward,  Upper  Canada. 
Plumb,  Samuel.    Undesignated. 
Powers,  Walter.     Lower   Canada,    Maine,   New  Hampshire, 

Vermont. 

Rand,  Thomas.     West  Farms,  Westfield. 

Rathbun,  Valentine  W.       Genesee  County  and  Tuscarora 

Indians,  New  York. 
Read,  James.    Rhode  Island. 
Rich, .    Machias,  Maine. 


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Richardson,  Phineas.     New  Hampshire. 

Riis, .    New  Orleans,  Louisiana. 

Ring,  John.     Maine. 

Ripley,  T.  B.     Easton,  Maine. 

Ripley,  Henry.     Eastport  and  adjoining  plantations,  Maine. 

Robinson,  George.     Grafton,  Vermont,  and  vicinity. 

Robinson,  Nathaniel.     Undesignated. 

Roots,  Peter  P.    Holland  Purchase  and  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Ross,  Arthur  A.     Bristol,  R.  I. 

Rowley,  Samuel. 

Sabin,  a.     Northern  Vermont. 

Sawyer,  Joseph.     Montreal,  Canada. 

Scott,  Richard.    New  Brunswick. 

Seaman,  James  N.     Undesignated. 

Sedgewick,  William.     Ohio. 

Sherburne,  Andrew.    Maine,  New  Hampshire,  New  York. 

Shurtleff,  Flavel.    Wickford  and  Warwick  Counties,  Rhode 

Island. 
Spaulding,  John.     Northern  Vermont. 
Spencer,  W.     Ohio. 
Spooner,  Thomas.    Undesignated. 
Starkweather,  Elisha.    Undesignated. 

Starr,  Robert  C.     Penobscot,  or  Washington  County,  Maine. 
Stearns,  Silas.     Undesignated. 

Stone,  Isaiah.    Rhode  Island,  Meredith  and  Guilford,  Conn. 
Stone,   Jonathan.     Smithfield,   Pa. 

Taylor,  William.     Ipswich. 

TiBBETTS,  Nathaniel.     Alleghany  River. 

Todd,  Asa.     Westward. 

ToRREY,  Joseph.    Hanson. 

Throop,  William.     Undesignated. 

Tripp,  John.     Eastward. 

Tucker,  .    Fredonia,  N.  Y. 

Wait,  Samuel.     North  Carolina. 

Wayland,  Francis.    Bristol,  R.  I.,  Saratoga  Association,  New 

York. 
West,  Samuel.     Richmond,  Va.,  Rhode  Island. 
Weston,  John  E.    Lechmere  Point. 
Whiting,  N.  N.     Schenectady,  N.  Y. 
WiLLARD,  Benjamin.     New  Hampshire  and  Maine. 
Williams,    Elisha.      Sandy    Bay,    Mass.,    New    Hampshire, 

Maine. 
Wilson,  Adams.    Machias  and  vicinity,  and  Wiscasset,  Maine. 
Wilson,  Jonathan.     Hanover  and  Guilford. 
Witherel,  George.     Essex  and  Clinton  Counties,  New  York, 

Canada. 


Appendix    D 
Declaration  and  Protest 

of  Baptist  Ministers 

W  ^^  ^^^  UNDERSIGNED,  Citizeas  of  tht  Unfted  States  ot  America,  aod  Mtmsters  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus 
V  Y  Christ,  consider  the  positions  which  we  occupy,  and  the  relations  which  we  sustain  to  God  and  our  Country,  as 
requiring  of  us,  at  the  present  time,  a  public  and  explicit  declaration  of  our  views  vitb  respect  to  the  subject 
of  Slavery. 

The  duty  is  by  oo  means  agreeable  to  our  castes  or  feelings.  In  yielding  to  its  claima,  we  have  no  private  ends  to 
answer ,  we  are  impelled  by  no  pressure  of  public  soitiment  around  ua»  We  are  FajuuisN ;  and  use  our  liberty  under 
the  direction  of  enlightened  consciences. 

Many  of  us  have  loqg  waited,  with  the  cherished  hope  that  some  reformatory  movement,  commenced  and  prose^ 
cuted  by  those  to  whom  the  whole  matter  more  appropriately  pertains,  would  render  all  action,  oo  our  part,  unnecessary. 
But  we  are  admonished  by  most  affecting  disclosures,  that  such  hope  is  viin,  and  that  the  time  has  arrived  wben  we  caa 
eeither  decline  nor  postpone  this  service,  without  incurringv  before  God  and  man.  a  fearful  responsibility. 

Instead  of  a  quickened  conscience,  and  a  deepened  spirit  of  humanity,  in  the  bosoms  sof  slaveholders,  we  have  wit- 
nessed, with  pamful  surprise,  a  growing  disposition  to  justify,  extend,  and  perpetuate  their  iniquitous  system.  .  Not  a 
few  who  once  professed  to  regard  it  a:i  a  vicious  and  censurable  institution,  are  now  among  its  warmest  aod  boldest' 
defenders.  Religious  men,  both  in  the  ministry  and  the  laity,  with  limited  exceptions,  not  only  give  their  personal- 
influence  in  favor  of  the  system,  but  even  pervert  the  Word  of  God  and  all  the  institutions  of  Christianity  to  its  support. 

Under  these  circumstances  we  can  no  longer  be  silent.  We  .owe  something  to  the  oppressed  as  well  as  to  the 
oppressor,  and  justice  demands  the  fulfilment  of  the  obligation.  Truth,  and  Humanity,  and  Public  Virtue  have  claims 
upon  us  which  we  cannot  dishonor  Whatever  may  be  the  value  of  our  testimony,  we  must,  as  honest  men,  employ  it 
to  vindicate  the  Right,  and  promote  the  Good. 

We  do.  therefore,  in  the  fear  of  God,  declare,  «7erally  and  jointly,  that  we^^disapptove  and  abhor  4he  system  of 
American  Slavery.     Among  the  facts  which  render  it  to  us  peculiarly  odious,  are  the  following: 

n  recognizes  immortal  beings  as  property,  aod  treats  them  as  commodities  of  commerce. 

It  extends  over  them  a  separate  and  oppressive  code  of  laws  that  bereaves  them  of  their  civiT  agd  social  rights,  and 
holds  them  liable  to  the  most  crue)  abuses  of  irresponsible  power. 

It  deprives  both  sexes  of  control  over  their  own  persons,  their  offspring,  and  the  fruits  of  their  labor. 

It  denies  to  them  inteHectuaJ  culture,  and  withholds  from  them  the  Gift  of  their  Heavenly  Father —  the  precious 
Bible. 

The  agfat  thus  to  degrade  and  oppress  a  particular  race  of  men.  is  defended  ufJon  principles  that  would  apply,  wiQi' 
equal  justice,  to  any  other  portion  of  the  human  family. 

With  such  3  system  we  can  have  no  sympathy.  After  a  careful  observattonof  its  character  and  effects,  and  making 
every  deduction  which  the  largest  charity  can  require,  we  are  constrained  to  regard  it  as  an  outrage  upon  the  rights  and 
happiness  of  our  fellow  men,  for  which  there  is  no  valid  justification  or  apology.  We  can  therefore  sustain  no  relation, 
and  perform  no  act,  that  will  countenance  the"  system,  or  imply  indifference  to  its  multiplied  enormities.  Against  it,  as 
a  mass  of  complicated  and  flagrant  wrong,  we  must  record  and  proclaim  out  solemn  protect  And  especially^must  we, 
as  Ministers  of  the  Son  of  God,  protest  against  those  perversions  of  the  Sacred  Oracles,  by  which  it  i^attempted  to 
make  their  Divine  Author  the  patron  and  protector  of  a  aystem 'which  is  so  entirety  repugnant  to  theu;.' principles  and 
spirit. 

But.  while  we  have  these  convictions  and  feelingi,  and' ulter  them  without  equivocation  or  reserve,  we  should  most 
heartily  rejoice,  could  we  leam  that  oar  fellow  citizeas  at  the  South  were  deliberating  on  their  <iutieS  and  obligations  to 
the  enslaved,  and  were  determined  wisely,  speedily,  equitably,  and  forever  to  release  them  from^^eit  unrighteous  bond- 
age. We  are  confident  that,  in  so  doing,  they  would  honor  themselves,  promote  their  own  ^ppiness,  and  receive  the 
applause  of  the  wise  and  good  throughout  the  world  and.  what  is  infinitely  more  irQportaayj^at  God  would  bless  them 
with  the  providential  and  gracious  tokens  of  his  approbation. 

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Appendix   E 

THq  following  men  have  served  as  President  and  Secretary 
of  the  Society,  respectively,  for  the  periods  indicated  below : 

PRESIDENTS. 

Samuel    Stillman,   D.  D 1802 — 03. 

Thomas  Baldwin,    D.  D 1804 — 06. 

Rev.   Joseph  Grafton 1807 — 25. 

Rev.  Bela  Jacobs 1826 — 31. 

Rev.  Ebenezer  Nelson 1832 — ^;i. 

Deacon  Levi  Farwell 1841 — 43. 

Deacon  Asa  Wilbur 1844 — 49. 

A.  J.  Bellows,  M.  D 1850—51. 

Deacon   Daniel   Sanderson 1852 — 53. 

Deacon  Asa  Wilbur 1854 

Hon.  J.  W.  Merrill 1855—56. 

George  B.  Ide,  D.  D 1857—58. 

Baron  Stow,  D.  D 1859 — 62. 

Daniel  C.  Eddy,  D.  D 1865—68. 

William   Lamson,    D.  D 1869 — 70. 

Mr.  D.  H.  Brigham 1871 

Daniel  C.  Eddy,  D.  D 1872 

Hon.  J.  H.  Walker 1873—74. 

Robert  C.  Mills,  D.  D 1875—79. 

Hon.  Eustace  C.  Fitz 1880 — 84. 

Robert  G.  Seymour,  D.  D 1884—86. 

Hon.  Edward  S.  Wilkinson 1887 — QO. 

Mr.  H.  H.  Bowman 1891 — 93. 

Hon.  E.  Nelson  Blake 1894 — 97. 

James  P.  Abbott,  D.  D 1898 

Rev.  Edwin  P.  Farnham 1899 — 1901. 

Mr.  George  C.  Whitney 1902 — 

SECRETARIES. 

Rev.  Thomas  Waterman 1802 

Thomas  Baldwin,  D.  D 1803 

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Rev.  William  Collier 1804 — 06. 

Daniel    Sharp,    D.  D 1807 — 08. 

Rev.  William  Collier 1809 — 11. 

Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D 1812—28. 

Howard  Malcom,  LL.  D 1829 

Rev.    William   Leverett 1830 — 33. 

Rev.  Jonathan  Aldrich 1834 

Rev.   Alonzo    King 1835 

Rev.  Charles  O.  Kimball 1836 — 39. 

Rev.  Charles  Train 1840 — 41. 

Rev.  William  H.  Shailer 1842 — 51. 

George  W.   Bosworth,   D.  D 1852 — 54. 

Rev.  A.  F.  Spalding 1855 — 56. 

Rev.  Nehemiah  M.  Perkins 1857 

Joseph  Ricker,  D.  D 1858 — 64. 

C.  M.  Bowers,  D.  D 1865 

Rev.  B.  F.  Bronson 1866 

C.  M.  Bowers,  D.  D 1867—78. 

George  W.  Bosworth,  D.  D 1879 — 87. 

Rev.  William  H.  Eaton 1888— 

Officers    of   the    Convention   which   was    merged    into   the 
original  Society  in  1835 : 

PRESIDENTS. 

Lucius  Bolles,  D.  D 1824 — 27. 

Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D 1828—29. 

Rev.  Abisha  Sampson 1830 — 34. 

SECRETARIES. 

Francis  Wayland,  Jr.,  LL.  D 1824 — 25. 

Daniel  Sharp,  D.  D 1826 

Jonathan  Going,  D.  D 1827 — 31. 

Rev.  Abial  Fisher 1832 — 33, 

Rev.   Alonzo   King 1834 


Index 

PAGE 

Abbott,  James  P 119 

Anti-slavery 83 

Apportionment  from  Churches 75 

Ashtabula,    Ohio 35 

Augusta,    Maine 66 

Backus,    Isaac 17 

Baldwin,    Thomas 38 

Barnstable  Association,  Domestic  Missionary  Society  of  the. 75 

Baxter,    Thomas 80 

Baptist   Education    Society 20 

Baptist  Education  Fund 29 

Bellows,  A.  J 84 

Blake,  E.  Nelson 119 

Bolles,  Lucius 27 

Boston,   South 48 

Boston,    Swede 103 

Bowers,   Charles   M 93 

Bosworth,  George  W 107 

Bowman,  H.  H 1 19 

Brown,    J.    Newton 44 

Building  Fund 108,  109 

Bumstead    Estate 95 

Case,   Isaac 13 

Chaplin,    Jeremiah 27 

Chessman,    Daniel 47 

Chester,  Dwight 115 

Chipman,  George  W 104 

Church  Edifice  Department 105 

Civil  Rule 89 

Claremont,   N.   H 32 

Collier,    William 23 

Concord,   N.   H 32,  47 

Detroit,    Mich 48 

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238  INDEX 

PAGE 

East  Greenwich,  R.  1 29 

Evans,   P.   S 104 

JExpenditures 125 

Fall  River,  First  Baptist  Church 48 

Farwell,  Levi 79 

Female    Societies 28 

Finances • 120 

Financial   Secretary 95 

Financial   Stringency "j^i 

Fittz,  Hervey 78,  loi 

Fitz,  Eustace  C 108,   118 

Ford,   Daniel   S 123 

French  Missions 97,   115 

Fund,  Permanent 80,  109 

Going,  Jonathan 50 

Grafton,    Joseph 52 

Gordon,  A.  J 117 

Hamilton   Missionary   Society ^2> 

Holland    Purchase 23 

Holyoke,  Second 83,  95 

Home  Missions 26,  106,  no 

Home  Mission  Magazine 42 

Home  Mission  Society 51,  52,  60 

Immigration 124 

Irish,  David 6 

Jacobs,  Bela 55 

Judson,   Adoniram,    Sr 35 

Judson,  Adoniram,  Jr 32 

Keely,   John 33 

Kennebunk,    Maine 66 

Kimball,   Charles  0 67 

King,    Alonzo 66 

Leland,   John 13 

Life   Directors 103 

Lincoln,  Ensign 48,  53 

Lincoln,    Heman 48 

Love,    H.    T 84 

Main,  W.  W 113 

Maine  Liquor  Law 37 

Magazine,  Missionary 17,  18,  32,  88 

Malcom,  Howard 42 


INDEX  239 

PAGE 

Manley,    Basil 44 

Massachusetts  Baptist  Convention 39,  56,  57,  60 

Massachusetts  Baptist  Missionary  Society: 

Charter 21,  22 

Consolidation  with  Convention 61 

Constitution 9 

Incorporation 21,    31 

Organization 7 

Massachusetts  Baptist  Sunday  School  Association 112 

Medfield  and  Dover 18 

Mercer,  Jesse 44 

Missouri 47 

Montreal 35 

Mt.  Holly,  N.  J 44 

Munroe,  William  A 115 

Myles,  John 3 

New  Hampshire  Missionary  Society 30 

New  York  Missionary  Society 20 

Northampton   Church 78 

Ohio  Missionary  Society 42 

Outlook 126 

Paul,   Thomas 22,  33 

Peck,  John  M , 34 

Pennsylvania    Missionary    Society 44 

Permanent  Fund 80,  109 

Philadelphia   Association i 

Pittsfield,  First  Church 78 

Portsmouth,  N.   H 33 

Presbyterian  General  Assembly 18 

Publication  Discourses 81 

Publications,    Statistics    of 98 

Religious    Liberty 55 

Rhode  Island 44 

Ricker,    Joseph 91 

Sandy   Creek 2 

Seymour,  Robert  G 112 

Shaftesbury    Association 6 

Sharp,  Daniel 25,  31,  Z2,  88 

Springfield,    First 95 

Statistical    Secretary 88 

Statistics 87 

Stow,    Baron 48 

Sunday   School   Association 112 

Swaim,  Samuel  B • 92 


240  INDEX 

PAGE 

Swansea 3 

Swede  Missions 102,  103 

Thomas,  O.  D 116 

Ticknor,  William  D 92 

Tilson,  Jonathan 103 

Train,  Charles 48,  76 

Tripp,    John. 13 

Tuscarora  Indians 20,  23 

Watchman,  The  Christian 39 

Watertown,    Mass 41,   47 

Waterville,    Maine 43 

Wayland,    Francis 35 

Weare,  N.  H 26 

Western  Baptist  Education  Association S^i 

Western   Theological    Seminary 37 

Whitney,  George  C 119 

Wilbur,  Asa 79,  106 

Wilkinson,  E.  S 117,  1 19 

Williams,  Nathaniel  M 34,  56 

Winchell,  James  M _ 30 

Women's  Foreign  Mission  Society 100 

Wrentham 13 

Wright,  David 75 

Young   Men's   Societies 25 


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